The Incident, by Kenneth Macleod
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'Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now - ten years later and seven hundred miles away - I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of their cries in my ears and the weight of their deaths on my conscience...' Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children died on his watch. It should never have happened. He was an expert swimmer. His grandfather, Gordon McInnes was on board a ship torpedoed during the war. He survived by clinging to the body of one of his colleagues. Years later, he met one of the crew of the U boat that attacked his ship. Gerd is a refugee of the Cold War. Recruited by the Stasi at a very young age, he escaped to the west after his mission went terribly wrong. He never went back. The Incident is a searingly powerful novel about fate; about those moments that change the course of a life forever. It is also a book about history, from the Second World war through to the current day, and the way incidents long past can have reverberate across generations.
The Incident, by Kenneth Macleod- Published on: 2015-03-01
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Review Gripping...The course of the long, hot day leading up to the tragedy on the beach pulsates with dread and fear, and is engrossingly broken up by a middle section, describing a man named Gerd's astonishing escape from East Berlin as a teenager in 1969' -- Catherine Taylor THE GUARDIAN 20120428 And all the while we await "the incident" - which, when it comes is beautifully written, well-paced and surprising. Proof that Macleod is a fiction strategist of talent. -- Tom Adair THE SCOTSMAN 20120421 A thought-provoking literary page-turner SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 20120624 the opening is a truly stunning account of ship torpedoed during the Second World War. Gordon McInnes survives the attack, and years later his grandson is a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children die on his watch. The novel concerns three turning points that change the course of three lives forever -- Alice O'Keeffe THE BOOKSELLER With lively dialogue and descriptive passages, this is an absorbing and emotional tale that spans two generations. -- Louise Purser STAR magazine 20120409 Stunning...It is a wonderful story about fate and the small important details that make us who we are; the events that change us irrevocably and how they continue to resonate through time. A powerfully perceptive debut from Kenneth McLeod. WE LOVE THIS BOOK With its almost exclusively male cast of characters and easy conversational tone, this notably readable first work defies easy categorization. Not a thriller, social drama or bildungsroman - though containing elements of all three - it nevertheless offers compelling tale-spinning marked by a strong sense of foreboding and hallucination-sharp detail. As a beach read it's a striking cautionary tale. -- Elsbeth Lindner BOOKOXYGEN Compelling UNDISCOVEREDSCOTLAND.CO.UK 20120731
About the Author Kenneth Macleod was born in Glasgow in 1972. He began working as a newspaper reporter at the age of seventeen then worked in the Scottish media for twelve years, before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He divides his time between Glasgow and Berlin, where he works as a tour guide. THE INCIDENT is his first novel.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Gripping, ambitious first novel By Keris Nine From the title, the cover and the minute detail that is gone into the particulars of the narrator's physical condition, his mood and his state of mind at the start of the novel, it seems quite clear that "the incident" in question is going to be related to Craig's occupation as a lifeguard on a German beach. It is certainly an intriguing starting point for what is to follow, but there are other significant "incidents" that come up in the reflection over the course of that one fateful day in 1988 which give Kenneth Macleod's first novel a much wider dimension.There's the question first of all of how a twenty-year old young man from Scotland has come to be working as a lifeguard on a beach catering to a German children's summer camp. This is covered in a traumatic story relating to Craig's grandfather's experiences during the Second World War as a sailor working on an oil tanker and a significant incident that marked his life forever. There is however another incident covered at greater length by fellow lifeguard Gerd, who relates his extraordinary experience, equally as traumatic, as a former East German citizen whose involvement with a Stasi operation has led to him coming across into the West at a time when Berlin and Germany are still divided.These stories seem tangential and take up a substantial portion to the book without being directly related to the central incident in question. The whole novel is so well-written and measured in its approach however that not a moment of the fine detail in any of the stories can be considered unnecessary or uninteresting. Rather, the detail becomes fascinating for the impact that any one of them can have on a situation that can ultimately entirely alter the course of a life. Individually, each of the three very different main stories in the book are gripping to read, but the real quality of The Incident is in how Kenneth Macleod - this is his first novel - thematically binds them together.In each case, the traumatic experience undergone by each of the protagonists - Craig, his grandfather, Gerd - opens up an awareness of what the narrator/author describes as "the blackness that surrounds us", and into which we can be plunged at any moment and when least expected. More than this however, the author also tries to consider how, having become aware of the vastness of this darkness, one can live with this knowledge. The place of God, literature and even, rather self-reflexively, the nature of the writing of the book itself is broached, which feels a little forced and over-reaching, but this is nonetheless, a hugely ambitious first novel - involving, wonderful to read, with a very distinctive outlook of its own.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not one I'd recommend. By samsons diary I found the book too jumpy. The principle of the story was good, but the author seemed to go off on flighty paths too frequently. I skipped a whole chapter as i thought it was too detached from the original purpose of the story.
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