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A marker to measure drift

"A ... novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past. On a remote island in the Aegean, Jacqueline is living alone in a cave accessible only at low tide. With nothing to protect her from the elements, and the fabric between herself and the world around her increasingly frayed, she is permeated by sensory experiences of remarkable intensity ... The pressing physical realities of the moment provide a deeper relief: the euphoric obliteration of memory and, with it, the unspeakable violence she has seen and from which she has miraculously escaped. Slowly, irrepreeibly, images from a life before this violence begin to resurface ... Jacqueline must find the strength to contend with what she has survived or tip forward into full-blown madness"--Publisher's description.

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  • "Marker to measure drift"@pl

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  • "On a holiday island somewhere in the Aegean Sea, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, fends off starvation as she survives in the aftermath of unspeakable brutality. Having escaped the horrors of Charles Taylor's regime, she builds a home of sorts in a cave overlooking the ocean. During the day, she wanders the sunny beaches offering massages to tourists, all the while balancing her will to live with the crushing guilt of survival. This hypnotic, lyrical and extraordinary novel tells the story of a woman existing in the wake of experiences so horrifying that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable."
  • ""A ... novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past. On a remote island in the Aegean, Jacqueline is living alone in a cave accessible only at low tide. With nothing to protect her from the elements, and the fabric between herself and the world around her increasingly frayed, she is permeated by sensory experiences of remarkable intensity ... The pressing physical realities of the moment provide a deeper relief: the euphoric obliteration of memory and, with it, the unspeakable violence she has seen and from which she has miraculously escaped. Slowly, irrepreeibly, images from a life before this violence begin to resurface ... Jacqueline must find the strength to contend with what she has survived or tip forward into full-blown madness"--Publisher's description."@en
  • "This electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. Its a story about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss."@en
  • "Jeune Libérienne de 23 ans, Jacqueline échoue sur l'île de Santorin. Pour survivre, elle fait les poubelles et masse les touristes contre quelques euros. Divers dangers la guettent : la police, les proxénètes, les hallucinations causées par la faim et la voix de sa mère qui résonne dans sa tête. Une rencontre l'entraînera à confier enfin son histoire et lui sauvera la vie.--[Memento]."
  • "An electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society"
  • "A hypnotic, spellbinding novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past. On a remote island in the aegean, Jacqueline is living alone in a cave accessible only at low tide. With nothing to protect her from the elements, and with the fabric between herself and the world around her increasingly frayed, she is permeated by sensory experiences of remarkable intensity: the need for shade in the relentless heat of the sun-baked island; hunger and the occasional bliss of release from it; the exquisite pleasure of diving into the sea. The pressing physical realities of the moment provide a deeper relief: the euphoric obliteration of memory and, with it, the unspeakable violence she has seen and from which she has miraculously escaped. Slowly, irrepressibly, images from a life before this violence begin to resurface: the view across lush gardens to a different sea; a gold Rolex glinting on her father's wrist; a glass of gin in her mother's best crystal; an adoring younger sister; a family, in the moment before their fortunes were irrevocably changed. Jacqueline must find the strength to contend with what she has survived or tip forward into full-blown madness. Visceral and gripping, extraordinary in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, Alexander Maksik's A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about ruin and faith, barbarism and love, and the devastating memories that contain the power both to destroy us and to redeem us. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide."@en
  • "An electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "A marker to measure drift"@en
  • "A marker to measure drift"
  • "Miara oddalenia"@pl
  • "La mesure de la dérive"
  • "Para medir la marea"@es
  • "Para medir la marea"
  • "Marker to Measure Drift"@en
  • "Een leegte om te onthouden : roman"

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