Migrations

A Novel

Inbunden, 272 sidor

Publicerades 3 augusti 2020 av Flatiron Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-20402-8
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She has always been the kind who can love but not stay. Taking only her research gear, she arrives in Greenland to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. She talks her way onto a fishing boat and it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds.

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Yes I like this one. It's a "boring" book, slow and a bit repetitive. It's, among other things, about the sea, about birds, and about wanting to die, like the birds are dying.

It's a world that is almost realistic. I don't know if people can really swim so far and so fast and survive such cold water, but it doesn't sound completely implausible that these people can. Or if that one injury scene makes sense. No idea.

But the big thing is extinction. All animals are dying. The sea is mostly empty. One character says that rats and cockroaches will probably survive. But seagulls are gone, and crows are declared extinct. Crows? Really? I can't believe that crows will die before humans. (Also, I watched a documentary that said octopuses thrive because sharks are getting fewer.) But I don't have to. That's just what this book world …