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Encircling
Encircling: A Novel | Carl Frode Tiller
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The brilliant first novel in the Encircling Trilogy, a searing psychological portrait of a man by his friends 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 Davids 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. Jons and Siljes 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? Carl Frode Tillers masterful opening novel to the Encircling Trilogy won the European Prize for Literature, the English PEN Award, and the Hunger Prize. Encircling, with David as its brooding central enigma, confronts the relativity of memory in an audacious and daring novel that reveals the shape of a life and leaves us wanting more.
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Innsirkling 3 | Carl Frode Tiller
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In part two and three I started losing track of all the different people, and the female characters continue being mental, but all in all this was a decent trilogy. The writing is too repetitive and the characters too much alike for it to be anything more though.

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Innsirkling 3 | Carl Frode Tiller
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Part three in this series this afternoon while I work on one of the gifts for #secretsantagoespostal!

CouronneDhiver Beautiful! 7y
emilyhaldi ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
Simona Very beautiful photo❣️👌 7y
Zelma What a cozy and wonderful scene! 😍 7y
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Encircling: A Novel | Carl Frode Tiller
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Intriguing! I‘ll most definitely continue with this series. The female character is just unsympathetic, irrational and weird though.

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Encircling: A Novel | Carl Frode Tiller
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Audiobook sewing, my new hobby! I‘m used to Audible and its stability. In the app I‘m listening to this book in, it just stops at 84%, very abruptly. There are no more parts to download. Wtf?

CatLass007 Where did you get the book, from the library? 7y
tricours @CatLass007 it‘s a Norwegian streaming service for audiobooks, called Fabel 7y
CatLass007 Oh. You live in Norway. I just assumed you lived in the states. Silly me. You know what they say about assumptions here in the States. 7y
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