If you can't be like this, at least make it easy for you to imagine it
The smell of the sea, the feeling of the sand on your feet, the sound of the waves... If something has the beach is that it is one of those experiences that is always unique. East summer in Kindle They have proposed that, if you are not going to step on the beach, you can at least enjoy a little bit of the sea, even if it is in a literary version. This is your selection of seven books with the sea as the protagonist, there are for all tastes.
THE FISH DO NOT CLOSE THEIR EYES
Erri De Luca invites us to travel to the beaches of Naples in the company of a man who remembers a summer that, location aside, could be that of many of us. He is 10 years old and spends his days reading books, going for walks and spending hours with his friends, until he meets a girl who changes his summer completely.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
THE STRANGE SUMMER OF TOM HARVEY
The accidental death of his father a few minutes after calling him on the phone ends with the jazz musician and part-time tour guide in Rome, Tom Harvey, back in the Italian town of Tremonte, bathed by the Mediterranean Sea. The result is a novel with detective overtones where no one is free from becoming a suspect.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
MY ISLAND
In My island , by Elísabet Benavent, the protagonists could be Maggie, a young woman who runs a guest house, and Alejandro, a visitor who arrives at the place by chance, but in the end it turns out to be that Mediterranean island with turquoise water.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STEPHANIE MAILER
The resolution of a strange murder in the coastal town of The Hamptons that occurred in 1994 returns to the present when several years later a journalist claims to have evidence that shows that the detectives who solved the case did not find the real culprit. Shortly after that, the journalist Stephanie Mailer disappears.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
THE SEA
In the case of this novel by John Banville, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2005, the literary journey takes us to a town on the coast of Ireland, where its protagonist spent the summers as a child and where he returns to cure the sorrows of the soul after a great loss.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
THE BEACH OF THE DROWNED
The appearance in Pontevedra Praia de Panxón of the corpse of a fisherman with his hands tied forces inspector Leo Caldas to immerse himself in the area's seafaring community to solve what certainly doesn't seem like just another accident.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
We end with an inescapable classic, one of the most mythical novels of Ernest Hemingway . Developed in a coastal town in Cuba, The old man and the sea narrates the struggle of an experienced fisherman against his bad luck, staged in the complicated fishing of a gigantic fish in the waters of the gulf and his struggle to bring his trophy to port.
Books to travel to the beach
Books to travel to the beach