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Silent Riders of the Sea
Silent Riders of the Sea
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In 1930, Jack the miner is grieving the loss of his young son. In a desperate attempt to escape his misery, he makes the choice to leave. With a motley crew of Scots, he embarks on Arctic fishing with the promise of a better life.
John Gerard Fagan, the author of the memoir Fish Town, takes us on a ride to the Arctic Sea through Jack's battle for survival on a crammed and gruesome ship and inescapable submission to the cruelty of nature and humankind alike. In the background, memories of his life as a miner, while a permanent excruciating pain from mourning his own child lingers.
Be ready for a tale of human suffering, violence, and sadness with this story of the hard side of human life.
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John Gerard Fagan is a Scottish writer from Muirhead in the
outskirts of Glasgow, who currently lives in Dunbar. His memoir
Fish Town, about buying a one-way ticket to rural Japan, where he
lived for seven years, was published in 2021. Silent Riders of the Sea
is his first work of long fiction.
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Silent Riders of the Sea is a remarkable story of grief and struggle that seeps into your flesh and bones and lingers. It's a story that drags you through the coal mines and onto a freezing ship where sailors are sick and starving and the management are willing to let them die as they seek to earn as much as they can. It's told through the eyes of a miner-turned-sailor called Jack and reads like a fever dream. It's raising the bar on what I'll now expect from Scottish literature in the future, and with that being said, I can't recommend it enough.
I am a fan of the author and a big fan of his previous novel Fish Town. Silent Riders of the Sea is almost like a horror story but told in the most incredible way.
It is my book of 2024/25 so far. The struggle of Jack on the cold Scottish seas as he realises he should have stayed with his wife is heartbreaking.
I was recommended this book by a friend and I was glad they did. It broke my heart but I have only good things to say about it. Silent Riders of the Sea is phenomenal.
One of the ways I judge books is if I miss the characters when I’m finished.. and I miss Jack. It’s one of those stories that you can’t put down. A heavy story, but my favourite ones always are.
Brutal, beautiful, and one of the most captivating stories I have ever read. Phenomenal writing.