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Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave behind the failing relationship, but also her beloved friends and family, and travels to the other side of the world in pursuit of her dream life working with whales in New Zealand. But when Ruth arrives, the news cycle she has been ignoring for so long is now the new reality. Far from home and with no real hope of survival, she finds herself climbing into the mouth of a beached whale alongside a stranger. When she emerges, it is to a landscape that bears no relation to the world they knew before. When all has been razed to the ground, what does it mean to build a life? The Stranding is a story about the hope that can remain even when the world is changed beyond recognition.… (meer)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Tell me something you miss, from Before.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
A testament to the waste, greed and disregard her species has shown to the sanctity of all life, as if the scorched land that surrounds them doesn't speak loudly enough to her of that already. (p. 109)
He was kept awake at night considering the fragility of their humanness. (p. 171)
Soon Ruth realized that, though books may no longer exist, they can tell their own stories. (p. 212)
They stand in silence. For the first time in months they know they have something in common. Two people who have made a mistake. People who misunderstood physical chemistry with something so much more. (pp. 231-232)
We drew imaginary lines on the earth and told each other we shouldn't cross them. Thinking we'd be safe if we stayed still, in our own little square of marked-out land. That didn't work out very well in the end, did it? (pp. 275-276)
It was accepting all the parts of herself, even the shameful bits, that meant she could love and beloved. (p. 290)
For so long, she thinks, I thought I was at the centre of the story. She understands now that she was just a part of it: the world will get on without her very well. (p. 291)
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
But if they were to cease rowing and jump into the waves, just as their mother did so many times before them, if they then should submerge their heads beneath the soft foam and let themselves float in that turquoise brine and close their eyes, then, listening beyond the wash of the stones against the ocean floor, they would hear three whales: a mother and her two calves, singing.
Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave behind the failing relationship, but also her beloved friends and family, and travels to the other side of the world in pursuit of her dream life working with whales in New Zealand. But when Ruth arrives, the news cycle she has been ignoring for so long is now the new reality. Far from home and with no real hope of survival, she finds herself climbing into the mouth of a beached whale alongside a stranger. When she emerges, it is to a landscape that bears no relation to the world they knew before. When all has been razed to the ground, what does it mean to build a life? The Stranding is a story about the hope that can remain even when the world is changed beyond recognition.
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