A classic novel, awarded the Booker Prize, by “the most English writer” of the 20th century, one of the pinnacles of the author’s psychological prose. The hero of the book, Charles Arrowby, a director, a little actor and a little playwright, retires at the zenith of his fame. He renounces the magic of the theater to become a hermit. True, he is a sybarite hermit and lives not in a cave, but in a comfortable villa on the seashore. A professional to the core, here too Arrowby cannot deny himself the pleasure of directing the lives of the people around him in the beautiful scenery of the seascape. “The Sea, the Sea” is a novel about the sea of human passions.