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Encircling: Books 1 & 2 Book Talk With Carl Frode Tiller

Author Carl Frode Tiller joins us to discuss the first two books in his Encircling Trilogy. A winner of the European Prize for Literature, the English PEN Award, and the Hunger Prize, the first novel, Encircling, introduces us to David: who, after losing his memory, is encouraged by his psychologist to reach out to friends and family to share their memories with him. As letters arrive from his closest friend Jon, his former girlfriend Silje, and his estranged stepfather Arvid, three radically different images of a man appear. Underscoring each of those are the very different narratives of those who remember David: Jon, a talented but troubled artist; Silje, who is unhappily married; and Arvid, a lonely vicar who is struggling with cancer. As David remains increasingly enigmatic, these unreliable narrators present a fractured portrait of grief and introspection, and the complexities of an unknowable self.











When: Thu., May. 3, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave.
212-779-3587
Price: Free with museum admission
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Author Carl Frode Tiller joins us to discuss the first two books in his Encircling Trilogy. A winner of the European Prize for Literature, the English PEN Award, and the Hunger Prize, the first novel, Encircling, introduces us to David: who, after losing his memory, is encouraged by his psychologist to reach out to friends and family to share their memories with him. As letters arrive from his closest friend Jon, his former girlfriend Silje, and his estranged stepfather Arvid, three radically different images of a man appear. Underscoring each of those are the very different narratives of those who remember David: Jon, a talented but troubled artist; Silje, who is unhappily married; and Arvid, a lonely vicar who is struggling with cancer. As David remains increasingly enigmatic, these unreliable narrators present a fractured portrait of grief and introspection, and the complexities of an unknowable self.

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