
Encircling
Book 2
Carl Frode Tiller(Author)
Sort of Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-908745-63-7 (ISBN)
Description
The island of Otteroya, a rural backwater of Norway, provides the setting for Book Two of Tiller's multi-award winning Encircling trilogy. Its singular premise continues: an enigmatic central character, David, has lost his memory and his friends and family write letters at the behest of his psychiatrist about the lives they once shared. The encircling narratives offered by two childhood friends and the midwife who attended his birth, reveal both the roots of his waywardness and, in a shocking twist, the traumatic secret of his identity.
Tiller uses a carefully scored polyphony of voices to present this epic saga of dysfunctional lives misshapen by poverty. As in the work of our own Ken Loach or Mike Leigh, its strength lies in its close domestic focus. Encircling: Book 2 is an intimate and modern portrait of Norwegian life that is both searingly honest and uncomfortably true.
Encircling 2 is the second volume of a multi-award winning trilogy, published to acclaim in Norway.
Tiller uses a carefully scored polyphony of voices to present this epic saga of dysfunctional lives misshapen by poverty. As in the work of our own Ken Loach or Mike Leigh, its strength lies in its close domestic focus. Encircling: Book 2 is an intimate and modern portrait of Norwegian life that is both searingly honest and uncomfortably true.
Encircling 2 is the second volume of a multi-award winning trilogy, published to acclaim in Norway.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 132 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 66 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908745-63-7 (9781908745637)
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Carl Frode Tiller was born in Namsos in 1970. He is the author of five novels and four plays all written in Nynorsk (new Norwegian). His Encircling trilogy has won the EU Prize for Literature; the Nordic Critic's Prize and been nominated twice for the Nordic Council's Prize.