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The Liar
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Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair.

One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island off the coast of Denmark, a place that in winter is entirely cut off from the world at large by ice. It is winter when the book begins, and for years now Johannes has lived alone, even as he nurses a secret passion for Annemari, a former pupil. Annemari is engaged to a local man, Olaf, who has left the island but is due to return come spring. She is also being courted by a young engineer from the mainland. Such are the chief players in a compact drama, recorded in Johannes’s ironic, self-lacerating, and anything but reliable diary.

Martin A. Hansen’s novel beautifully evokes the stark landscape of Sand Island and the immemorial circuit of the seasons as well as the mysterious passage of time in the human heart, all the while proceeding to a supremely suspenseful conclusion.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781681377186
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1681377187
Udg. Dato:
4 apr 2023
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
203mm
Højde:
127mm
Forlag:
New York Review Books
Oplagsdato:
4 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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