“The styrofoam board is about the size of my torso. I found it on a construction site, bobbing in a puddle. My right foot in the water, and I realise how small I will feel in the immense ocean, under the immense sky, then my left. The sand on the bottom feels dense. Cold along my calves, on my genitals, it’s freezing. I lean forward. Continue further out.”
What opportunities are given to you in life, and to what extent are the place and time you are born into crucial to how your life is going to turn out? To the Island is a story of one man’s life, and at the same time the novel is an uncompromising tale of the development of human society.
