Description: A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic
Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the passengers in his charge, he starts to plan a desperate gesture that will send a wake-up call to an overheating world.
The Lamentations of Zeno is an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising a limpid sense of place or the pace of its narrative. It is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting and at times irreverent tale that approaches the greatest challenge of our age—perhaps of our entire history as a species—from an impassioned human angle.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Lamentations of Zeno : a Novel
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Literary, Political, Sea Stories
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Author: Ilija Trojanow
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
