R380.00
Ice Shock is a powerful love story set against a world in crisis. As volcanic ash halts global travel and melting ice reshapes the planet, two lovers struggle to stay connected across continents.
Description
An Icelandic volcano has thrown an ash cloud into the atmosphere and, across the world, planes have stopped flying. Overhead, the skies are severely blue. Leah Nash and Niall Lawrence, twenty-somethings in love, grow strangely restless. They set out on different but parallel pathways. He takes on work at an Antarctic polar station and experiences the strange and lonely beauty of the precarious ice-world. She studies writing in England and struggles to find her way. They are both determined to stay together, though separated by thousands of miles.
Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock is a love story set against the backdrop of the melting ice caps. The novel asks what it is to be close even when we are far apart—distant yet proximate. How do we go on loving each other when the environment around us is changing catastrophically by the day?’