BODY BY THE SHORE Paperback

Tabish Khair's "The Body by the Shore" is a complex and thought-provoking novel of suspense and speculation set in a post-pandemic world around 2030, yet spanning back through centuries. It weaves together multiple narrative strands: Harris Malouf, a former killer with a wiped past, receives a mysterious assignment from someone who shouldn't be alive: in Aarhus, Denmark, police officer Jens Erik grapples with the unresolved case of a Black man's body found years ago: and on a lavish resort built on an abandoned North Sea oil rig, a young Caribbean woman named Michelle uncovers a secret laboratory with horrific, non-human experiments. The novel delves into profound themes of human intervention with nature, the complexities of life on Earth, racism, climate change, greed, and the ongoing struggles of humanity versus microbes, ultimately revealing a world of both terror and profound beauty as its diverse characters and timelines converge.