Encircling 2
β Scribed by Carl Frode Tiller
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2017;2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1555979912
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β¦ Synopsis
Encircling 2 continues Carl Frode Tiller's "poised and effective Rashomon -style exploration of multiple psyches" (Kirkus Reviews)
Book two of The Encircling Trilogy continues piecing together the fractured identity of David, the absent central figure who has lost his memory. Three very different friends write letters about his childhood on the backwater island of OtterΓΈya. Ole, a farmer struggling to right his floundering marriage, recalls days in the woods when an act of pretending went very wrong. Tom Roger, a rough-edged outsider slipping into domestic violence, shares a cruder side of David as he crows about their exploits selling stolen motorcycles and spreads gossip about who David's father might be. But it is Paula, a former midwife now consigned to a nursing home, who has the most explosive secret of all, one that threatens to undo everything we know about David.
With a carefully scored polyphony of voices and an unwavering...
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