“I wanted to create an image of a modern man facing the need to use violence in order to prevent even greater violence,” wrote its author, 1974 Nobel Prize winner, Swedish novelist Eivind Jonson, about the novel “Surf and Shores.”

The plot of the book is based on Homer’s “Odyssey”, however, Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus, familiar to everyone from childhood, are completely devoid of a heroic aura. There is no need for heroes, the time has come for businessmen. Conscience, honor, loyalty seem to be outdated anachronisms... And Odysseus, who survived the Trojan War and vowed never to kill again, takes up arms again.