Lights on the Sea
Written by Miquel Reina
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
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About this audiobook
“Miquel Reina’s Lights on the Sea is an absolutely lovely, beautiful debut novel with a dreamy, fable-like quality that will appeal to readers. Fans of Life of Pi will love this novel.” —Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone
On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapeses have never moved past the tragedy. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapeses and their home take a free-fall slide into the white-capped sea and float away.
As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.
Wildly imaginative, deeply poignant, and entirely unexpected, Lights on the Sea sweeps readers away on a journey of fate, acceptance, redemption, and survival against the most rewarding of odds.
Miquel Reina
Barcelona-born Miquel Reina defines himself as a dreamer and a fighter; from a young age, he was drawn to the creative life, studying design and cinema before building his reputation as a filmmaker and graphic artist. His work in advertising won him several awards, including the prestigious Bronze Sun at Spain’s Festival de San Sebastián in 2011, and in 2014, his music video “Dead in the Water” was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Reina has lived in Vancouver, Canada, since 2016, working for a video-production studio and dedicating his free time to his most gratifying passion: writing. Lights on the Sea is his first novel. Visit Miquel at www.miquelreina.com and www.lucesenelmar.com. About the Translator Catherine E. Nelson is a literary translator specializing in contemporary Spanish literature. Her short story translations have appeared in a variety of journals, including Indiana Review and InTranslation. AmazonCrossing published her full-length translation, A Love for Rebecca by Mayte Uceda (2015). Nelson is Professor of Spanish at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where she teaches language, literature, writing, and translation.
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Reviews for Lights on the Sea
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Odd and charming, this book is unlike any I’ve read before. It’s quaint and quirky, yet manages to be taken seriously by the reader. It’s full of twists and turns, as well, which makes it engaging right from the start. I wish I could read more books like this one.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A strange but rather cute book. Picture this, an elderly couple, mourning the death of their son for over thirty years are being forced from their home which stood at the edge of a cliff. The night before they’re to leave, the house (which ironically was built from parts of a ship) falls into the ocean. We follow Harold and Mary Rose as they try to figure out how to get home while faces countless obstacles while stranded on a house in the sea although as Harold accurately determined ‘it seemed only the house knew where it was going’.
So some very strange things happen in this story but a hefty suspension of disbelief and the mystique of the book gets you through. The book is translated from Spanish but it reads perfectly in English.