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The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

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The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

by Pan Bouyoucas

CORMORANT BOOKS | February 16, 2006 | Trade Paperback

How far would you go to make amends? Lukas, a successful Montreal restaurateur, is haunted by the memory of his first love, Zephira. He wants to ask her to forgive him for abandoning her back in Greece forty years ago. But the girl has died. When Lukas recalls that for the ancient Greeks, the sleeper''s mind was the bridge where the living and the dead met at night, he embarks on a fantastic journey through an underworld populated by ghosts from his present and past, including his dead parents, his boyhood friend Aris his gradeschool arch-enemy Nestor, as well as cameos from Marilyn Monroe, and the Goddess Artemis.  

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How far would you go to make amends? Lukas, a successful Montreal restaurateur, is haunted by the memory of his first love, Zephira. He wants to ask her to forgive him for abandoning her back in Greece forty years ago. But the girl has died. When Lukas recalls that for the ancient Greeks, the sleeper''s mind was the bridge where the living and the dead met at night, he embarks on a fantastic journey through an underworld populated by ghosts from his present and past, including his dead parents, his boyhood friend Aris his gradeschool arch-enemy Nestor, as well as cameos from Marilyn Monroe, and the Goddess Artemis.  

About the Author

Pan Bouyoucas is a Greek-Canadian writer, playwright, and translator. He has a BFA from Concordia University. Two of his works have been shortlisted for the Governor General''s Award: L''Autre in 2001 and Thésée et le Minotaure in 2003. His book The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea has been translated into French, Russian, and Serbian.

Trade Paperback

220 Pages, 6 x 9 x 0.41 in

February 16, 2006

CORMORANT BOOKS

English


1896951929
9781896951928

From the Critics

"He seems able to bridge linguistic divides in the same way he claims that dreams bridge life and death. He has written a novel that is both funny and chilling as it touches the place where fears of death hide in the daytime."

-Quill and Quire

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