In Waves, which follows the lives of a group of friends from childhood to middle age, the characters' thoughts about themselves and each other are conveyed through a rhythmic repetition of phrases, dense imagery and an indirect narrative that evokes poetry. With chapters organized according to the cyclical course of sunrise and sunset on a beach hit by waves, the pendulum-like lyrical narrative of Waves draws the reader into a vortex in which time and space are ground. The Waves, which has continued to fascinate critics and readers since the day it was written, is one of the masterpieces of world literature.

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