The search for Heinrich Schlögel: a novel

✍ Scribed by Andrae, A.;Baillie, Martha

• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 204 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Arctic regions,Arctic Regions., Baffin Island (Nunavut), Nunavut--Baffin Island.
• ISBN-13: 9782014011906

✦ Synopsis

Archivist's note -- Part one. Tettnang, Chapter 1. The naked eye ; Chapter 2. The necessity of work ; Chapter 3. A language of uncertainty ; Chapter 4. Soon my life will begin ; Chapter 5. The art of survival ; Chapter 6. Generative order ; Chapter 7. The importance of a plan -- Part two. Iqaluit. Chapter 1. The fox stepped back into the fog -- Part three. Auyuittuq. Chapter 1. The longer I wander -- Part four. Pangnirtung. Chapter 1. A woman's knife -- Part five. Toronto. Chapter 1. Inge ; Chapter 2. We are all erratics -- Appendix: the search for Heinrich Schlögel -- Acknowledgements -- Biography.;Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a two-week hike into the isolated interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences strange encounters and inexplicable visions as shards of Arctic history emerge from the shifting landscape. When he returns from his hike, 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 Schlögel dances between reality and dream.

✦ Subjects

Andrae, A