The Stranger from the Sea, Paul Binding
The Stranger from the Sea, Paul Binding
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The Stranger from the Sea

Author: Paul Binding

Narrator: Piers Hampton

Unabridged: 14 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/19/2019

Synopsis

After a ferocious early-springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengatehe is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as a reporter at the local newspaper. A loner by nature, hes a curiosity to the nosy townspeople, the gregarious editor of the paper, and his melodramatic landlady, whose own private life is fraught by the unexplained absence of her son and suspicious disappearance of her husband. But when Hans moves into the Mercy Room of Martins boardinghouse to convalesce and Martins editor assigns him the task of interviewing the young sailor, it upends his otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of his travels at sea, how he survived the shipwreck?and of his encounter with a ferocious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to re-examine his past and future ambitions and his relationships with everyone around him.

About Paul Binding

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet, and cultural historian. After spending his early childhood in Germany, he returned to be educated in England and studied English literature at Oxford University. He has been a lecturer at universities in Sweden, Mississippi, and Italy and was a managing editor for Oxford University Press and an editor for the New Statesman. Having written more than ten novels, he currently resides in the Welsh Marches.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liam on July 08, 2024

(spelling mistakes corrected in July 2024. I also want to add that my opinion of this novel had only grown since I first wrote this. I think it is forgotten classic and if I have prefix that with 'gay' to get people to read then I do.) I loved this book which I acquired at the same time as his earlie......more

Goodreads review by Doug on June 29, 2024

This is one of those reads that I felt would have been twice as effective at half the length. The core story of the relationship between English narrator Martin Bridges and Norwegian Hans Lyngstrand (a somewhat marginal character in Ibsen's 2nd tier play, The Lady from the Sea) is lovely and effecti......more

Goodreads review by Emma on April 17, 2020

Full disclosure, I won an uncorrected proof of this book through Goodreads Giveaways. I was not aware of Henrik Ibsen's play, and maybe that helped me see this book as its own entity. I was very impressed with the intellectual quality of the writing. This is a beautifully-written novel that could ea......more

Goodreads review by Kristian on April 26, 2019

I found this book very interesting. I won this book as giveaway from Goodreads. I originally signed up because I enjoy Ibsen plays, although I am unfamiliar with The Lady from the Sea, the one this book is built around. It felt a lot like Ibsen and I found some of the historical information interest......more

Goodreads review by Dev on January 29, 2020

I got this book on audio through Hoopla and I generally found it boring. I think I would have found it much more interesting had I read or even heard of Henrik Ibsen's Lady from the Sea, since the plot resolves around the main character's experiences with a character from that play. I am about half......more

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