Low Tide

New Zealand at the end of the last century. Charlie, his young sister and their Maori friend walk out where the sea has strangely retreated and find an old, sunken boat, suddenly high and dry on a rock. They are dramatically caught by a tidal wave that gives their sunken boat a second life. In a remarkable book whose short sentences leave great gaps for the reader to fill, things are not what they seem, from the legendary wild man to the ruins of their village. Sunken ships voyage again, the children walk where there was once sea and sail where there was once dry land. Garner's The Stone Book is the nearest equivalent I can think of where the writing is spare and richly suggestive, leaving your head echoing with the possibilities of things reseen and reinterpreted.