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"When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow."@en
"(Publishers Description) The author of The Untouchable (contemporary fiction gets no better than this Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the twins Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and expressionless in whose mysterious connection Max became profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the barely bearable raw immediacy of his childhood memories. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna of their life together, of her death and the moments, both significant and mundane, that make up his life now: his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire, desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past beats inside him like a second heart. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, vividly dramatic, beautifully written novel among the finest we have had from this extraordinary writer. (Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville.) (Calmar Campus also has this title in audiobook format.)."@en
"Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family."
"Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family."@en
"Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There, he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death."
"When art historian Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins - silent, expressionless Miles and fiery, seductively poised and forthright Chloe - who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow."@en
"This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared there, in that long-ago summer, as if from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins, Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. Praise for "The Sea": 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov. "The Sea" [is] his best novel so far ...Banville's prose is sublime' - "Daily Telegraph". 'This is a novel in which all Banville's remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, disturbing, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation' - Allan Massie, "Scotsman". '"The Sea" is a beautiful novel, challenging and richly rewarding."
"La 4e de couverture indique : "When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow.""
"Een tragische gebeurtenis in de jeugd van een Ierse jongen bepaalt voor een groot deel zijn latere leven."
"Een tragische gebeurtenis in de jeugd van een Ierse jongen bepaalt voor een groot deel zijn latere leven."@en
"Story of Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, goes back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her."
"Story of Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, goes back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her."@en
"It is a comfort to know that we have a lord of language among us' - Gerry Dukes, "Irish Independent"."
"Après la mort de sa femme, Max revient dans le village du sud-est de l'Irlande où, enfant, il a passé l'été qui a façonné le reste de sa vie. Pour apaiser son chagrin, il loue une chambre aux Cèdres, la villa du bord de mer qu'occupait, l'été de ses 11 ans, la famille Grace. Cinquante ans plus tard, il va comprendre pourquoi ce qu'il a vécu avec cette famille l'a marqué de manière indélébile..."

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"Electronic books"@en
"Powieść irlandzka"@pl
"Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)"@en
"Roman psychologique"
"Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
"Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"@he
"Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Roman familial"
"Large type books"@en
"Translations"@he
"Translations"
"Popular literature"
"Psychological fiction"@en
"Psychological fiction"
"Literatura i medicina"
"Irish fiction (English)"
"Inscriptions (Provenance)"
"Love stories"
"Romans (teksten)"
"Limitation statements (Publishing)"@en
"Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"
"Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
"Irské romány (anglicky)"
"Sagas"

name

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"Die See ungekürzte Lesung"
"Biẻ̂n"
"Morze"
"Morze"@pl
"The sea [text(large print)]"@en
"El Mar"@ca
"El Mar"
"ha-Yam"
"The Sea [L]"
"Deniz"
"Morje"@sl
"The Sea"@en
"The Sea"
"Sea"
"Daryā"
"Hē thalassa : mythistorema"
"Havet"@da
"Havet"@sv
"O mar"
"El mar"
"El mar"@es
"Die See : ungekürzte Lesung"
"Bi^?en"
"Moře"
"Il mare"
"Il mare"@it
"De zee"
"Ē thalassa : mythistorēma"
"<&gt"@he
"Dya sī"
"Die See Roman"
"La mer"
"Die See : Roman"
"The sea : [proof]"
"Die See"
"More"
"The sea"
"The sea"@en
"הים"

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