Carl Frode Tiller, trans. from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. Graywolf, $16 ISBN 978-1-55597-762-7
In this first volume of the ambitious Encircling Trilogy (winner of the European Prize for Literature), David’s memory has vanished and three voices from his youth recall his life in a series of letters. Jon writes of growing up in the sheltered...
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Carl Frode Tiller, trans. from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $16 trade paper (456p) ISBN 978-1-55597-801-3
The second book of Tiller’s Encircling trilogy serves as a troubling contemplation of the havoc fragile masculinity can wreak. The book alternates between emails sent to central figure David, a Norwegian writer who has placed an ad asking those who...
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Carl Frode Tiller, trans. from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. Graywolf, $20 trade paper (520p) ISBN 978-1-64445-058-1
Tiller’s fascinating and revelatory final volume in his Encircling trilogy turns everything readers thought they knew on its head. The series began with a simple premise: a writer named David, having lost his memory, placed an ad in the paper in...
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