| Note |
First published in Norway in 2007 as Innsirkling by H. Aschehoug & Co., Oslo. This English translation first published in 2015 by Sort of Books, London. |
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"A novel" -- cover. |
| Summary |
David has lost his memory. When a newspaper ad asks his friends and family to share their memories of him, three respond: Jon, his closest friend; Silje, his teenage girlfriend; and Arvid, his estranged stepfather. Their letters reveal David’s early life in the small town of Namsos, full of teenage rebellion, the uncertainties of first love, and intense experiments in art and music. As the narrative circles ever closer to David, the letters interweave with scenes from the present day, and it becomes less and less clear what to believe. Jon’s and Silje’s adult lives have run aground on thwarted ambition and failed intimacy, and Arvid has had a lonely struggle with cancer. Each has suspect motives for writing, and soon a contradictory picture of David emerges. Whose remembrance of him is right? Or do they all hold some fragment of the truth? |
| Subject |
Amnesia -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Social perception.
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Norway -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Psychological fiction.
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| Series |
Encircling trilogy ; bk. 1
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| Add'l Names |
Haveland, Barbara, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781555977627
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