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7283276An Ocean of Minuteshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/an-ocean-of-minutes-9781786487957/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6839984/image.jpg?v=638743665671200000500500MXNQuercusInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong><em>An Ocean of Minutes</em> is that rare thing - a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. An original and compelling novel unlike anything youll read this year</strong><br />Esi Edugyan, author of <em>Washington Black</em></p><p><strong>A heartbreaking and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of holding onto the past - and the price of letting it go.</strong></p><p>Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank is dying. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. And she must leave everything she loves behind, including Frank.</p><p>All they have is the promise of a future together: they will find each other again in twelve years time, in Galveston, Texas, where the sea begins.</p><p>But when something goes wrong and Polly arrives late, Frank is nowhere to be found. Completely alone, Polly must navigate a terrifying new world to find him, and to discover if their love has endured.</p><p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE 2018</strong></p><p><strong>The clear-eyed, evocative writing here is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, and anyone familiar with <em>The Handmaids Tale</em> will find resonance in these pages... a devastating debut</strong><br /><em>Toronto Star</em></p><p><strong><em>An Ocean Of Minutes</em> absolutely swept me away</strong><br /><em>Red</em> <em>Magazine</em></p><p><strong>A profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love... This is a story about the malleability of time, but at its core lives something timeless</strong><br />Omar El Akkad, author of <em>American War</em></p>...6920557An Ocean of Minutes500500https://www.gandhi.com.mx/an-ocean-of-minutes-9781786487957/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6839984/image.jpg?v=638743665671200000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20189781786487957_W3siaWQiOiJkYjZjNjUxYS1mM2FiLTQ0YjQtOWQ3ZC02ZDZhZGYxYjczNjciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjUwMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NTAwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wMi0wNVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9781786487957_<p><strong><em>An Ocean of Minutes</em> is that rare thing - a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. An original and compelling novel unlike anything youll read this year</strong><br />Esi Edugyan, author of <em>Washington Black</em></p><p><strong>A heartbreaking and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of holding onto the past - and the price of letting it go.</strong></p><p>Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank is dying. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. And she must leave everything she loves behind, including Frank.</p><p>All they have is the promise of a future together: they will find each other again in twelve years time, in Galveston, Texas, where the sea begins.</p><p>But when something goes wrong and Polly arrives late, Frank is nowhere to be found. Completely alone, Polly must navigate a terrifying new world to find him, and to discover if their love has endured.</p><p><strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE 2018</strong></p><p><strong>The clear-eyed, evocative writing here is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, and anyone familiar with <em>The Handmaids Tale</em> will find resonance in these pages... a devastating debut</strong><br /><em>Toronto Star</em></p><p><strong><em>An Ocean Of Minutes</em> absolutely swept me away</strong><br /><em>Red</em> <em>Magazine</em></p><p><strong>A profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love... This is a story about the malleability of time, but at its core lives something timeless</strong><br />Omar El Akkad, author of <em>American War</em></p>...9781786487957_Quercusaudiolibro_9781786487957_9781786487957Thea LimInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2018-06-28T00:00:00+00:00Quercus