The North Water: A Novel -

Ian McGuire

Henry Holt and Co.

2016

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9781627795944

A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.

Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage.

In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action. And as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: who will survive until spring?

With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, Ian McGuire's The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions.

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Grata surpresa!

Comecei o livro depois de ver o primeiro episódio da minissérie, e até então ainda não sabia nada sobre como seria o desenrolar da história. Me peguei não conseguindo parar de ler, e algumas vezes não aguentando mais ler devido as passagens com crueldade animal, mas o final é satisfatório e compensa ter aguentado.