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The Swimmers

ISBN 
9780241543887
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R355.00
Published 
April 2022
About the book: 
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again
 
From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic
 
Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...
 
Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ...
 
As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.
 
A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss,  The Swimmers  is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.
 
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