Whale Fall

Resumen del libro

For Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the islands shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for whats to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the islands harsh, salt-stung landscape.When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive, Manod sees in them a rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching for. But, as she guides them across the islands cliffs, she becomes entangled in their relationship, and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Ox{0026} x02019;Connor vive en Birmingham, donde se doctoró en Literatura Inglesa. Sus cuentos han aparecido en The White Review y Granta, y en 2020 recibió el White Review Short Story Prize. También escribe poesía y La ballena varada (Seix Barral, 2025) ha sido su primera y exitosa incursión en la novela.