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Lobster

by Guillaume Lecasble

An unlikely love story aboard the Titanic

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AlbakiReads Editorial

An unlikely love story aboard the Titanic

Aboard the Titanic, a lobster survives the wreck of the ship and develops an attraction to Angelina, the human who ate his father. Their brief encounter gives this surreal fable its strange central tension: desire crossing the boundary between species, against the disaster unfolding around them. The premise combines the Titanic setting with an intentionally absurd, darkly comic treatment of love, appetite and survival. The publisher’s description also signals a story of separation and longing, while leaving the lobster’s unusual perspective at the heart of the book.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in surreal or absurdist fiction.
  • For readers drawn to unconventional stories of desire and separation.
  • For readers open to a comic premise set amid the Titanic disaster.

Themes

Cross-species desireLove and separationSurvivalAppetite and the natural world

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Book overview

Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the iceberg and the pot is thrown to the floor. Lobster survives, with some changes: he finds himself sexually attracted not only to a human, but to the very human who ate his father. He gives her one life-changing orgasm before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats.

"A fable of crustacean love. Our hero is a lobster aboard the Titanic. From his tank, he watches his father being eaten by a pretty girl. Then the boat founders and Lobster escapes. Aboard the sinking ship, Angelina, the girl who ate his dad, knows a brief but shattering moment of physical love with Lobster. Then they are separated. They pine for each other. Angelina tries having sex with another lobster, with disastrous results. Death smells of bay leaves." -- Sam Leith in The Daily Telegraph

"In terms of abusing the natural world, Lobster by Guillaume Lecasble is in a league of its own. The surrealist tale of a lobster on board the Titanic which finds itself helplessly attracted to a human female, the book hinges on the life-changing orgasm the fishy amorist gives Angelina as the boat sinks in the icy water." -- Tom Fleming in The Literary Review
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