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The Sea Bed
Author(s): Marele Day (Author)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 290 pages
- ISBN-10: 1741758416
- ISBN-13: 9781741758412
Book Description
An intriguing, understated, and beautiful narrative of a Japanese Buddhist monk who has to travel to a remote fishing village on a task of love and duty, and a young woman who is returning to the village of her birth A novel of desire, duty, and secrets follows the journey of a Buddhist monk who leaves the safe predictability of his mountain monastery and ventures into the world to carry out a fellow monk’s dying request. When he encounters abalone diving women in a remote coastal village he is torn between dedication to his task and surrender to desire. While the monk skirts around the edges of the sea womens’ community, at its heart is Chicken, a young diver witnessing the extinction of a way of life that has been her family’s for generations. If only her sister Lilli would return, perhaps somehow that would bring renewal. But the past and its secrets weigh heavily on Lilli, and she had her own reasons for disappearing all those years ago. Each of these characters is locked in their own isolation, yet their stories are connected in deep and sometimes surprising ways. A beautifully observed, lucid, and evocative novel, this is an utterly captivating story of love, family, and change.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“An unworldly, other-worldly story, by turns affecting and humorous and always absorbing . . . [a] marvelous novel.” —New York Times Book Review on Lambs of God
“Day’s writing combines subtlety with profundity . . . she has deliberately avoided the pitfalls of presenting us with stereotypes or parodies of how we in the West tend to view the Japanese way of life. In
The Sea Bed, we are given insights into traditions and customs that few of us have had the opportunity of experiencing.” —AustralianAbout the Author
Marele Day is the award-winning author of internationally acclaimed Lambs of God as well as Mrs. Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain’s Wife.
