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About This Book
A remote North Atlantic island group frames a tender and uncanny narrative: a teenage boy rescued from drowning grows close to the older man who saved him, and they spend days singing, swimming, and planning voyages together. When the man later perishes in a shipwreck, the boy is devastated; soon strange nocturnal visitations begin, in which the dead figure returns cold and yearning, embracing the youth and drawing sustenance from his breast. The tale intertwines loyalty, grief, and eroticized longing with supernatural dread amid windswept cliffs and fogbound seas.