Praise for Encircling 1
“What makes this novel, the first of a trilogy, extraordinary is the suspense: like the best mystery novels, it transforms the reader into an obsessive gumshoe—though, in this volume, at least, David’s identity is a question with no definitive answer.”
—The New Yorker
“A beautiful meditation on the subtler ways we fail each other, our quieter forms of grief…. It’s thrilling to know two more books will arrive to tell its story.”
—USA Today
“[An] impressive and ingenious novel…. [Tiller’s] authentic voices consistently entrance and intrigue.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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The suspenseful second novel in The Encircling Trilogy
With steadily growing suspense, Carl Frode Tiller’s carefully scored polyphony of voices continues to piece together the fractured identity of David, the absent central figure of The Encircling Trilogy. To remind David of the memories he lost, three friends write about his childhood on the island of Otterøya: Ole, a farmer struggling to save his floundering marriage; Tom Roger, a rough-edged and violent outsider; and Paula, a former midwife harboring an explosive secret. Filled with questions and answers that stay tantalizingly out of reach, Encircling 2: Origins is an exhilarating look at how identity is influenced by our friendships, and a thrilling continuation of The Encircling Trilogy.
Praise for Encircling 2: Origins
“Intense and psychologically acute…. Bombs dropped in the final pages ensure hot anticipation for the final installment.”
—Booklist
“An incomparable intellectual escapade…. [The Encircling Trilogy leads] to an inescapable conclusion: identity is not a monolith but a collage—an odd, overlapping, contradictory collage, impossible to reconcile.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“A moving, complex portrait…. [Encircling 2] gets at the uncomfortable truth: though we may view ourselves as the heroes of our own stories, we’re little more than supporting players in everyone else’s.”
—Words Without Borders
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