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`An ambitious narrative that is stark, serene and contemplative...There is no disputing that Ledgard is an elegant, determinedly intellectual and disciplined writer, yet there is also immense humanity in this novel, which deserves to be one of the strongest challengers for this years' Man Booker Prize. It is the kind of novel that wins awards, and if it does so it will be because it deserves it...Here is an artist's novel that achieves the ultimate goal of any writer: it makes us pause and think, and think again' --Irish Times
`JM Ledgard's eclectic and philosophical novel ranges far wider than this latest manifestation of the `war on terror'... Ledgard creates a prose poem of ideas and images that hops and flits with inspiration'. --Metro
'Book of a lifetime.' --The Independent
`Submergence succeeds, and is immensely pleasurable, because Ledgard's magnetic north - though incessantly insisted on - is such an uncanny, inhuman and deathly place' --New Statesman
'From the icy depths of the Greenland Sea to the sweltering plains of a Somali Islamist training camp, Ledgard's masterful second novel is a beautifully crafted, rigorously researched, and deeply affecting love story.' --Monocle
`From the icy depths of the Greenland Sea to the sweltering plains of a Somali Islamist training camp, Ledgard's masterful second novel is a beautifully crafted, rigorously researched, and deeply affecting love story' --Monocle
`Submergence is frequently beautifully written, and ensnares the reader in a forceful, hard-driving narrative...If there's any justice in the world this novel will at least be nominated for a major literary award.' --The Scotsman
`Submergence is a contemplative literary novel which invites readers to adopt a new perspective on their place in the world' --The Herald
`it's the only fiction I've read in the last few years that has left me open-mouthed.'
--Word Magazine
`JM Ledgard's eclectic and philosophical novel ranges far wider than this latest manifestation of the `war on terror'... Ledgard creates a prose poem of ideas and images that hops and flits with inspiration'. --Metro
'Book of a lifetime.' --The Independent
`Submergence succeeds, and is immensely pleasurable, because Ledgard's magnetic north - though incessantly insisted on - is such an uncanny, inhuman and deathly place' --New Statesman
'From the icy depths of the Greenland Sea to the sweltering plains of a Somali Islamist training camp, Ledgard's masterful second novel is a beautifully crafted, rigorously researched, and deeply affecting love story.' --Monocle
`From the icy depths of the Greenland Sea to the sweltering plains of a Somali Islamist training camp, Ledgard's masterful second novel is a beautifully crafted, rigorously researched, and deeply affecting love story' --Monocle
`Submergence is frequently beautifully written, and ensnares the reader in a forceful, hard-driving narrative...If there's any justice in the world this novel will at least be nominated for a major literary award.' --The Scotsman
`Submergence is a contemplative literary novel which invites readers to adopt a new perspective on their place in the world' --The Herald
`it's the only fiction I've read in the last few years that has left me open-mouthed.'
--Word Magazine
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The second novel by the author of the highly praised Giraffe.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read Legards extraordinary first novel, Giraffe, I was greatly looking forward to his second. Far from disappointing, Submergence is written with an intelligence and emotional warmth which surpasses the earlier book. Part love story, part hostage drama, this book takes the reader to places both uncomfortable and moving. I read it on one sitting, and found myself wanting to start it again from the beginning.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Beautifully written with wonderful complexity, Submergence is the sort of book that the Booker used to be about before they dumbed it down. The switching between different time points adds another dimension to the story and allows the author to draw parallels between the action of the 2 protagonists. It is a book which needs concentration but it deserves it. Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
it's a wonderful book. commits what for me is normally the cardinal sin of moving between different plotlines, but here it works because the writers does it so elegantly and you're so interested in them all and they're so marvellously connnected. unlike other reviewers here, i couldn't read this quickly. i found some of the passages so moving and disturbing that i couldn't hurry on. also the writing is so dense. dense in the very positive sense that it carries a lot, is always elegant and doesn't take short cuts.
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