The Oyster Thief
The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi
Book Feature - The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi
HBL Note: When the publicist first reached out to me about The Oyster Thief, the line that stuck out to me the most was that it was “literary fiction novel with themes of ocean conservation.” A friend of mine from college has gotten really into ocean conservation and the humane treatment of animals. We communicated a while back about dolphins performing as an attraction and how they really need quite a bit of space and freedom to move to be happy and healthy. I really appreciate it when my friends take the time to help me better understand the world around me. As Oprah says, “When you know better, you do better.” So I was pretty excited to hear that this novel had themes of ocean conservation woven into this beautiful story.
Book Feature - The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi
From the Publisher:
Two worlds collide when a mermaid and human man meet, plunging readers into a vast underwater realm brimming with adventure and intrigue.
The mermaid’s scales were bronze, and they shimmered like hundreds of pennies arranged close together. Her immense blue-green eyes gave a look of fragility to her face, yet he found her eyes unsettling. She was leaning against a thirty-foot-long shark, which emerged from behind her and opened its mouth to reveal a great big cavern lined with hundreds of teeth―a black tunnel ready to swallow him.
Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight.
Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth―while threatening merpeople with extinction. But then, suddenly, Izar finds himself transformed into a merman and caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue. Meeting Coralline in the ocean, he decides to join her on her quest for the elixir, hoping it will turn him human again.
The quest pushes Coralline and Izar together, even though their worlds are at odds. Their pasts threaten to tear them apart, while a growing attraction adds to the danger. Ultimately, each of them faces an impossible choice. Should Coralline leave her fiancé for a man who might betray her? And Izar has a dark secret of his own―one that could cause him to lose Coralline forever.
Magnificent and moving, set against a breathtaking ocean landscape, The Oyster Thief is a richly imagined odyssey destined to become a classic.
