Like new never read. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Merche invents the entire culture of an island called Sanjania- its a national symbol, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers called "fictioneers" and its rich and imagined literary historyband traditions. Shining at the Bottom of the Sea takes readers from the rough and tumble pamphlets of 1870s Sanjania to the extraordinary longing in the writings modern-day Sanjania Diaspora.
“May be the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.”(The New York Times Book Review) Shining at the Bottom of the Seais a vibrant evocation of a fictional country...
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