Rudolfs Blaumanis's 1899 short story masterpiece, based on a contemporary newspaper account, tells of several fishermen lost at sea after the ice floe on which they work calves off and drifts away rapidly.
One by one, the thirteen men and a boy must deal with the creeping reality that they may not see the mainland -- or their loved ones -- again. There is fish to eat, and two horses if necessary, but the very surface of the floe is eroding steadily ... and the nights are cold and terrible. Without ever moralising or over-elaborating, Blaumanis coolly and efficiently observes the state of each of the main characters in turn, whether natural leaders, optimists, craven opportunists, terrified, stoic, compassionate or alienated. In the shadow of encroaching death, each must come to some kind of reckoning.
In The Shadow Of Death
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This stark, haunting classic of Latvian literature follows a group of fishermen stranded on a drifting ice floe, forcing each man to confront fear, hope and the quiet reckoning that comes when survival is no longer guaranteed.
As the floe breaks away and carries thirteen men and a boy into open water, food dwindles, the ice erodes beneath them and the nights grow brutally cold. With only fish — and, if desperation demands it, two horses — to sustain them, the group must face the growing realization that they may never return to shore or see their families again.
Blaumanis observes each character with cool precision, revealing natural leaders, cowards, optimists, opportunists and the quietly compassionate. Without moralizing, he shows how crisis strips people to their essence, and how, in the shadow of encroaching death, every man must arrive at his own reckoning.
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- Author: R. Blaumanis
- Language: Angļu valoda
- Year of publication: 2018
- Manufacturer: Momentum Books
- Cover type: Soft cover
- Number of pages: 64
- product.Svars: 0.046 kg
- ISBN code: 9781911475361
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