By the Sea: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

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With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. PM Plus Storybooks feature a classic story structure with tension, climax and resolution to engage young readers.

Mahmud and Shaaban take it in turns to tell their side of the story, almost drenching the reader with too much detail. In its emotional heft and honesty, its ability to go fearlessly to the darkest places, its pellucid empathy and its spot-on rendering of the pandemic experience for both individuals and the country, Lucy by the Sea is perhaps the best of the four marvelous novels Strout has written featuring Lucy Barton. I saw an older, more wiser, but maybe a more vulnerable Lucy, but still Lucy, and one of my favorite characters.The novel is a reinvention as much as a remembrance of things past, with the author as latter-day Shahrazad, staving off the reader's final judgment. The books have been written using carefully selected vocabulary to ensure children experience reading success.

The story certainly isn't linear, which was difficult for me at first, but as I relaxed into it, I came to appreciate the slower pace, the circuitous route, and all that it reveals. Published in 2021, novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea tackles these questions and explores how remembering and forgetting are deeply entangled. However, this unfair treatment is marginalised by the deception, bitterness and revenge that reverberates between the two families of Gurnah's story. When I looked straight ahead there was nothing on the horizon past those two small islands, that is how far out the ocean went. The backdrop is COVID, and she also makes a few references to current events, like the election and January 6th.He later explained, "Whether The Sea is a successful work of art is not for me to say, but a work of art is what I set out to make. Although I'm sure the author has no axe to grind, his novel can almost be seen as a poetic manifesto against the tyranny of language when used as a tool of the state.