The Sea by John Banville
The winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize - Written in Banville's precise and hauntingly beautiful prose, The Sea is both a reconciliation with loss and an extraordinary meditation on identity and remembrance. Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, it is unquestionably one of the finest works yet from a sublime master of language.
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss confronting a distant trauma.
