An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
When a deadly flu pandemic threatens America, Polly must risk it all to save the man she loves. In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a bittersweet and unforgettable love story of a couple who are at once weeks and many years apart.Thea Lim's An Ocean of Minutes is that rare thing - a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. In lucid prose, Lim lays bare the complexities of migration and displacement, while offering a clear-eyed meditation on the elusive nature of human devotion. An original and compelling novel unlike anything you'll read this year * Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black *
An Ocean Of Minutes absolutely swept me away * Red *
With echoes of The Time Traveller's Wife, An Ocean of Minutes is a love story with a difference * Good Housekeeping *
The clear-eyed, evocative writing here is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, and anyone familiar with The Handmaid's Tale will find resonance in these pages... a devastating debut * Toronto Star *
Amidst the breathtaking world Thea Lim has created in An Ocean of Minutes is a profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love. It takes immense talent to render cruelty both accurately and with honest beauty - Lim has pulled it off. This is a story about the malleability of time, but at its core lives something timeless * Omar El Akkad, author of American War *
Heartbreaking... A beautiful debut exploring how time, love, and sacrifice are never what they seem to be * Kirkus *
A strikingly imaginative time-travel story unlike anything I've ever read, rich with pinpoint emotional insight and fierce, vivid observations about a future that's already our past * Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays *
Thea Lim's imaginative and timely writing feels wholly original... a truly heart-breaking narrative... a beautifully poignant ending * Western Mail *
A buoyant, compelling tale ranging from the everyday beauty of falling in love to a frightening vision of a dystopian present day... boundless and dynamic
An Ocean of Minutes offers that rare combination of a provocative speculative setting, masterfully elegant writing, and a story that moves and haunts long after the last page. Thea Lim is an enormously talented writer * David Chariandy, author of Brother *
Lim's enthralling novel succeeds on every level: as a love story, and imaginative thriller and a dystopian narrative * Publishers Weekly *
An Ocean of Minutes is a time machine into the future of this moment. Gripping and graceful, it's dystopian love story as told by a visionary. Thea Lim's novel reads like the birth of a legend
* Mat Johnson, award-winning author of Pym and Loving Day *Moving and compelling * Big Issue *
Thea Lim's writing has been published by the Southampton Review, the Guardian, Salon, the Millions, Bitch Magazine, Utne Reader and others, and she has received multiple awards and fellowships for her work, including artists' grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and she previously served as nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast.
She grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto, where she is a professor of creative writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786487926 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786487926 |
| Title | An Ocean of Minutes |
| Author | Thea Lim |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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