num_pages: 215
description: A tidal wave came, as high as the stars and hissing, and it washed away bathers, buildings, all civilization. Paul Sant survived by clinging to a surf mat. Eventually he found land-but unlike land he had ever know. Combining an allegory of good and evil with adventure that takes us through nightmare to salvation-including knights in armor, fish people called Gugs, and an ominous yelloe Volkswagon-R.E. Klein creates a world that is strange beyond our imagination yet familiar to the heart, a world where things may not be real, but they are true. In the History of Our World Beyond the Wave, Klein imagines a world washed clean of materialism, cynicism, of the emptiness of modern life, a world where the metaphysical and the magical are again possible.
language: English
title: The History of Our World Beyond the Wave
titlecomplete: The History of Our World Beyond the Wave
genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 58
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt