The Wrong Shore: Being the First Volume of the Adventures of Amado Tiberius Pelentin, (Paperback)

<p><b>A man walks out of a zoo, steals a canoe, and sets off to find<br>the tomb of a Greek hero he believes is his ancestor. This is not, <br>strictly speaking, a plan. It is, however, a novel.</b></p> <p>Amado Tiberius Pelentin is twenty-five years old, convinced he is<br>the spiritual heir of the warrior Diomedes, and entirely untroubled<br>by the possibility that he might be wrong. Armed with a secondhand<br>book about forgotten heroes, a hand-drawn map of a small island off<br>Sardinia, and an inexhaustible supply of conviction, he sets out from<br>a nameless Romanian city on a journey that will take him down the<br>Danube, across the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus, and out into the<br>open Mediterranean - arriving, inevitably, somewhere he did not<br>intend.</p> <p>Along the way he acquires Cato: a sardonic Danube smuggler who<br>pulls Amado from the reeds one night, intending to leave him on the<br>nearest shore, and who is still there, inexplicably, when the sea<br>deposits them both on the coast of Egypt. Between them lies the whole<br>of Europe by water - Greek islands where they are mistaken for<br>criminals, a Turkish fig-seller who believes himself descended from<br>sultans, a cold captain who names nothing he might have to mourn, <br>and a storm that does not arrive so much as replace the world.</p> <p><i>The Wrong Shore</i> is a picaresque novel in the tradition of<br>Cervantes and Laurence Sterne, filtered through the comic despair of<br>early Evelyn Waugh - a story about the indistinguishable distance<br>between destiny and delusion, and about the strange, ungovernable<br>loyalty of the man who follows you anyway.</p> <p><b>For readers of Don Quixote, A Confederacy of Dunces, <br>and The Adventures of Augie March.</b></p>

• The Wrong Shore: Being the First Volume of the Adventures of Amado Tiberius Pelentin, (Paperback)
• Author: Billy Jilly
• ISBN: 9798184830421
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-29
• Page Count: 290