Atlantic Black

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 279 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When Anne suffers a psychotic breakdown, Katerina is left alone on a ship full of strangers who span classes and stations, all of whom carry their ambitions, fears and obsessions with them. For a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of an ambassador, its an exciting, frightening world to navigate.Atlantic Black is a psychologically intense and affecting story of unexpected familial betrayal, of a mother and daughters relationship, of a brother and father whose voices resonate from afar. Personal loneliness, love and loss, are tightly bound to the wider reality of a world set on a fateful course. The legacy of violence, and of how the First World War precipitated the Second World War reverberates as if tolling on the inside of a church bell. Through the eyes of Katerina and her own familys place within a fracturing world, we see the way damage, yet also hope, are passed from one generation to another. A.S. Patris writing is achingly tender, the tone merciless but heartbreaking in its compassion.The story takes place over one day and night, New Years Eve, 1939. The RMS Aquitania steams across the Atlantic Ocean. On the horizon, the world is about to explode.

ISBN: 9780995409828