
Beyond the Sea
By Paul Lynch
2019
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages
Fishermen Bolivar and Hector set sail from their South American village, but soon find themselves cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean by a sudden storm. As the days pass and no rescue materialises, the two men must come to terms with their environment, and with each other, if they are to survive. Part gripping survival story, part fearless existential parable, Beyond the Sea is a meditation on what it means to be a man, a friend, a father and a sinner in our fallen world.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
1,230
5 STARS
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Author

Paul Lynch
Author · 5 books
Paul Lynch is the prize-winning Irish author of four novels: BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for best foreign novel. He has also been shortlisted for UK’s Walter Scott Prize, the US’s William Saroyan International Prize, and France’s Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, among other prizes. Libération has called Lynch "one of today’s greatest Irish writers".