Book description
A novel of suspense and intrigue set in the post-pandemic world
Harris Maloub, a killer with an erased official past, now in his fifties, is visited by someone who could not be alive and given an assignment. In Aarhus, Denmark, Jens Erik, police officer on pre-retirement leave, somehow cannot forget…
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1 author picked The Body by the Shore as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a very interesting novel, which is a deep reflection on human life that is told at the pace of a thriller.
It is set in the decade after the COVID pandemic, not so far into the future where fantasy takes over and not so close to the present where our senses are too dulled from the exigencies of reality and its aftermath. It is a futuristic espionage story that is highly literary in its narration.
Not many Indian authors come to mind who aren’t entirely obsessed with questions of identity and its politics in their writing – who…
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