Sea Changes

"Sea Changes" - Turning Points. Just one catastrophic night at sea off the quiet British east coast, and all of England is drowning in a flood of guilt, hypocrisy, and pathological altruism. Against the backdrop of a tragic disaster, the life paths of a fortune seeker from Iraq and a blunt-speaking English farmer fatefully converge, while politicians and journalists struggle to present themselves in the best possible light. Derek Turner's debut novel, published in the USA in 2012, has depicted with shocking accuracy the mechanisms, paths, and developments of the so-called refugee crisis that has engulfed the Old World since 2015. Although it arrives too late in German to serve as a timely warning, it nonetheless highlights perhaps the most important point: the true beneficiaries of the cultural.