Larkin Paul - The Liar - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Liar
Author(s): Larkin Paul
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681377186
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction