When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest's wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst. But what the villagers don't know is that Joe Haak has fled the City of London fearing a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a collapse forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. But is the end of the world really nigh? Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from the outside world? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay? Intimate, funny and deeply moving, Not Forgetting the Whale is the story of a man on a journey to find a place he can call home.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion)
ISBN: 9780297608219
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 12/02/2015
Año de edición: 2015
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por John Ironmonger
John Ironmonger, escritor británico nacido y criado en el África Oriental, se vino a vivir, al final de su adolescencia, a un pueblo de pescadores de Cornualles, lugar que ha marcado en parte su obra. Zoólogo de formación y viajero incansable, es autor de las novelas "The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder", seleccionada para el premio Costa a una primera novela en 2012 y el Not the Booker del diario "The Guardian"; y "The Coincidence Authority".