A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)A FINALIST for the LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD and GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” ―NPR“Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite―even sadistic―sense of suspense." ―Ron Charles, The Washington PostLeah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.
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Our Wives Under the Sea
von Julia Armfield
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)A FINALIST for the LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD and GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” ―NPR“Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite―even sadistic―sense of suspense." ―Ron Charles, The Washington PostLeah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.
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As if „I who’ve never known men” and “Chlorine” had a child. I didn’t mind the slow pace, it only made the heartbreak more heartbreakier. But seriously… she couldn’t have called a doctor?
I think I went into this expecting something different than it was. It started slow, but about halfway through, it started to pick up and tie everything together. I was beginninf to enjoy it and waiting for some answers. But I was left with too many questions at the end. I like open endings, but pretty much nothing was answered the entire mystery and problems abandoned to focus as the grief.
2,5/5 idk iwie konnte ich nicht so viel mit der geschichte anfangen :/
Ich weiß nicht, ob es an dem relativ langsamen Einstieg lag oder daran, dass ich die erste Hälfte des Buches immer nur in Mini Sprints von 2-3 Seiten lesen konnte, doch es hat eine Weile gedauert, bis ich wirklich drin war und mit den beiden Protagonistinnen warm wurde, doch irgendwann ist ein Schalter umgesprungen und es hat mich gepackt. Es wird zwar als Horror-Roman angepriesen, geht aber viel tiefer als das. Der Horror wabert eher so unterschwellig vor sich hin, bis er gegen Ende etwas mehr an die Oberfläche kommt (was ich extrem gelungen finde). Stattdessen steht die Geschichte des Kennen- und Liebenlernens im Fokus, das Entfremden und unweigerliche Abschiednehmen und Trauern, das neben der Miri-Leah Beziehung noch geschickt die Beziehung zwischen Miri und ihrer Mutter mit in die Geschichte webt. Das ist alles sehr poetisch und mit viel Liebe zum Detail geschrieben, die kleinen fast alltäglichen Details, die die Beziehung zwischen Leah und Miri ausmachen, die Beobachtungen, Beschreibungen von Gestik und Mimik und dem sanften Umgang miteinander. Und dann die Entfremdung und der Umgang damit. Nur die Wasser- und Meeresmetaphorik ufert mir hin und wieder etwas aus, aber im Ganzen ist das wirklich gelungen. Für mich ein Roman, der eher in der Weird Fiction Tradition steht, als der klassischen Horrors. Allein in der Tiefsee-Thematik schwingt natürlich unweigerlich Lovecraft mit, bietet dem Ganzen aber eine absolut runde und gelungene queere, moderne Gegenerzählung. Nach dem etwas langsamen Start hatte das für mich die perfekte Balance zwischen Tiefe, Verunsicherung, Weirdness, unterschwelligem Horror und der poetischen Analyse zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen.
This is one of the most moving books I have ever read. It is outstanding in its ideas, characters, atmosphere, story, writing style and depth. It is so sad, but also so beautiful. I loved it so much.