Luck Has Eight Tentacles
About This Novel
This is a healing novel about the warm friendship between humans and animals. Tova is a seventy-year-old woman who works as a night cleaner at the aquarium. Mopping the floor, picking out chewing gum stuck in dark places, wiping fingerprints on the aquarium glass... Tova keeps herself busy as much as possible to forget the well-known pain: her only son mysteriously disappeared on a ship thirty years ago, and her wife who has been with her for many years passed away due to illness. There is another reason for choosing the aquarium. She likes to "talk" to these aquatic animals, especially a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus. Marcellus was imprisoned in the aquarium for more than three and a half years. He was very afraid of humans and always hid. It wasn't until Tova found him outside the tank and rescued him that he returned to the water. Only then did Marcellus and the fish truly establish a friendship. It's hard for humans to imagine how smart an octopus can be, but Marcellus, who has three hearts, eight arms, and 500 million neurons, can not only detect common human blind spots and absurd behaviors, but even deduce what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. To repay this friendship, Marcellus uses every trick at his disposal in the invertebrate body to uncover the truth for her before it's too late...
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Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Warm and special story: Everything is animistic
A very readable, warm and simple story that connects the heroine's life through a giant Pacific octopus. The octopus has a highly intelligent and unusually gifted body and tentacles, allowing it to easily escape from the water tank and be able to express emotions and communicate with the heroine. In many studies, the octopus has always been described as a highly intelligent creature. In the end, the heroine found her long-lost grandson, but her son ended his life when he was 18 years old, which has always been a regret in her life. Before her son passed away, she left a posthumous son. The perfection of destiny is completed through an octopus with wisdom and spirituality!!
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Official(1)Scraped 21d ago
Warm and special story: Everything is animistic
A very readable, warm and simple story that connects the heroine's life through a giant Pacific octopus. The octopus has a highly intelligent and unusually gifted body and tentacles, allowing it to easily escape from the water tank and be able to express emotions and communicate with the heroine. In many studies, the octopus has always been described as a highly intelligent creature. In the end, the heroine found her long-lost grandson, but her son ended his life when he was 18 years old, which has always been a regret in her life. Before her son passed away, she left a posthumous son. The perfection of destiny is completed through an octopus with wisdom and spirituality!!
