Sea monsters
Aridjis, Chloe2020
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One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomàs, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking - recklessness, impulse, independence - and may also help her fulfil an unusual obsession: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. They head for Zipolite, the 'Beach of the Dead', a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will 'promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery'. But as she wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.
Main title:
Sea monsters / Chloe Aridjis.
Author:
Aridjis, Chloe, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2020.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781784706739 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
2910974