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The search for Heinrich Schlögel: a novel

✍ Scribed by Martha Baillie

Publisher
Tin House Books
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1935639919

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Brimming with the creativity behind David Mitchell's masterpiece Cloud Atlas in a far north setting, The Search for Heinrich Schlogel is a sophisticated story with magical underpinnings.Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences strange encounters and inexplicable visions. Time plays tricks on him. When he returns to civilization, he discovers that, though he has not aged, thirty years have passed. Narrated by an unnamed archivist who is attempting to piece together the truth of Heinrich's life, The Search for Heinrich Schlogel dances between reality and fantasy. Heinrich's story, as it unfolds, in today's disappearing North, asks us to consider our role in imagining the future into existence while considering the consequences of our past choices. Brimming with the creativity behind David Mitchell's masterpiece...

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