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Twenty million years ago, powers of the universe allow an ancient spirit one final chance to achieve a mysterious intellectual purpose, by incarnating it as a dolphin on the planet Azure (Earth.) The spirit is born as Ripple, a vulnerable female with a seeming tendency to insanity. She falls for the scarred fighter-dolphin Cosmo and love inspires her to achieve her purpose. But before she can communicate her discovery, she must overcome terrific odds among the terrors and tragedies of the ancient oceans. If she can succeed, the universe will change forever, and profoundly affect the yet-to-evolve human race. This important piece of metaphysical literary fiction is written for adults but is eminently suitable as a text for secondary school students, being both challenging, absorbing and informative of the ocean environment that covers most of our world. The book was selected to represent New Zealand authors at the 2012 Frankfurt Book fair during New Zealand's year as country of honor at the fair. It has now been translated and traditionally published as a hardcover edition in The Czech Republic. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Ripple is the short tale told of a dolphin through the narrative of a higher deity who changed her 'ideas' to words for us humans to comprehend.
The story starts before Ripple herself was born, with Pearl her mother readying her for the outside world.
When Ripple is finally born she grows to be a fantastic dolphin with amazing abilities in different careers, however the one she seeks hasn't yet been created and thus her story is the struggle to find it and create what doesn't exist.
Overall Ripple is an original tale of the life of a dolphin that I found a fresh break from the normal reading material I seem to keep finding.
I did find the humanized lifestyles of the dolphins such as working to a curriculum in astronomy and gymnastics to be somewhat dull and feel that perhaps the strength of the story could have been better if the dolphins were learning things like deep sea diving or even showing more of the ocean with exploration where they could have encountered whales or Ursula the sea witch.
I found Ripple to be a quick and light read, that though somewhat slow never got to the stage of putting down for long periods of a time.
I rate 4 stars for originality mostly but the narrative was also what kept this book from diving to the deep.
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