The Beach
- Kategoria:
- powieść przygodowa
- Wydawnictwo:
- Penguin Books
- Data wydania:
- 1996-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1996-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 448
- Czas czytania
- 7 godz. 28 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0140258418
- Ekranizacje:
- Niebiańska plaża (2000)
In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveler rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travelers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek