Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A wondrous and haunting deep-dive into landscape and culture.
"Countless are they, the people who for one reason or another - or for no reason at all - have met their fate on the beach."
This fascinating essay collection, translated from Swedish, walks global shores, looks to the sea and transcends the everyday. Beaches have shadows. They are places of tragedy that look upon the unfathomable abyss of the ocean.
Per H gselius skirts our history, shipwrecks and bodies, relics of war and vanished lives. He draws on his encounters with painters, writers and movie directors. He invokes Casper David Frinedrich, Frankenstein and Jaws. Prepare for a haunting journey that leaves you fragile and shows you wonders.
Synopsis
A walk with Per H gselius, skirting
shipwrecks and bodies, relics of war and vanished lives, is a deep-dive into
landscape and culture. It leaves us fragile and shows us wonders.Holidaymakers
go to the beach to play. The world's great writers, film makers and artists
head there to tread the margins between life and death. In Death on the
Beach, Per H gselius leads us in their footsteps.
What
do we find? Life-busting ideas, powerful landscapes, scenes to make you shiver,
and an entry-gate to some of the most exciting books and films you've never
heard of.
Translated from Swedish by award-winner
Agnes Broom (The Gospel of the Eels), this gripping essay collection
reveals that longing inside us that continues to draw us to the sea - even when
so many have failed to return.