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Paul Lynch, 2024
A fisherman in a Venezuelan lagoon is offered money to take two men out to sea, just ahead of a storm.
Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch wrote the novel in Trinidad, where he was living, and it won the 2023 Booker Prize. Its title comes from a Latin phrase, 'nec plus ultra' — nothing further beyond.
Feels like nature, awe and longing.
He offers marriage the only way he knows: with a list of household things.
Μιὰ μέρα, ρόζα, πρέπει νὰ μὲ παντρευτεῖς. ῞Ενας ψαρὰς εἶμαι, τὸ ξέρω. ᾽αλλὰ θὰ ξεπληρώσω τὶς δόσεις ποὺ χρωστᾶς γιὰ τὴν τηλεόραση. θὰ σοῦ πάρω ἴσως κι ἕνα τζίπ. θὰ σοῦ πάρω κι ἕνα ντουλάπι γιὰ τὰ ροῦχα σου. θὰ σοῦ ϕέρνω ὅσα μοσχολέμονα τραβάει ἡ ψυχή σου. ῾η ρόζα κοιτάζει τὰ ἡλιοκαμένα πόδια του, τὰ στραπατσαρισμένα πλαστικά του πέδιλα, τὰ χοντρά του δάχτυλα. ᾽απ ᾽τὸ μεγάλο δάχτυλο τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ του ποδιοῦ λείπει τὸ νύχι. Books by Paul Lynch
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