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The sea is death. Gogos believe in postcard decor, poets in the mirror of the soul, but he knows that the ocean is a raging beast that spares no one: the cemetery of all shipwrecked people. As a child, he turned his back on her so as not to see her; as a teenager, he preferred swimming pool water; As a young adult, he faced this
“scum”
as the cause of all his unhappiness. One day, in London, facing a painting by Turner, he wavered, the floor swayed under his feet: the monster was there in front of him. The immense waves were going to engulf it.
Born in Ireland, Aidan, the hero of Arnaud de La Grange's latest novel, first struggled with the waters like Jacob with…
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