Sách - The Call of the Cormorant by Donald S Murray (paperback) tại Lotte Market

Giới thiệu Sách - The Call of the Cormorant by Donald S Murray (paperback) tại Lotte Market

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Publisher: Ingram IPS

Origin: GB (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781913393540

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 288

Dimensons: 198 x 129 x 30 | 400 (gram)

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From the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestseller As the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable “unreliable biography” of serial swindler Karl Einarsson.

As a child of the late nineteenth century in the North Atlantic’s windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands, Karl Einarsson grows up believing he is superior to his peers, destined for a life of art and adventure. As soon as he is old enough, he sets out for Denmark and begins his own reinvention.

Once untethered from his past, Einarsson’s lies begin to spiral. He begins a life of serial scamming, swindling everyone from fishermen to aristocrats. He has set his sights on Atlantis, but when his schemes find him in 1930s Berlin, for the first time Einarsson is forced to reckon with something bigger than himself. As the Nazis rise to power around him, his indifference becomes unwitting complicity, and even betrayal.

Based on the true story of Karl Einarsson’s life, this is an outlandish tale of island claustrophobia, of those who leave and those who stay behind, and the many dangers of delusions, deceit, and false identities.

Donald S Murray is a bilingual writer, poet and teacher whose work has been awarded numerous prizes, including The Society of Authors' Paul Torday Memorial Prize and The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award at Scotland's National Book Awards. His acclaimed books bring to life the culture and nature of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and he appears regularly at literary festivals and on BBC Radio.

• Based on a true 20th-century story of a scammer: there is huge current interest in true crime and scam stories, demonstrated by the success of podcasts such as Scam Goddess, Scamfluencers, Queen of the Con and Swindled
• Inventing Anna meets the The Count of Monte Cristo
• For fans of Douglas Stuart and John le Carré.
• Author’s previous work described by Sarah Waters as “A brilliant blend of fact and fiction, full of memorable images and singing lines of prose.”
• Author is a previous winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, in the company of Anne Youngson, author of Meet Me at the Museum.

• Based on a true 20th-century story of a scammer who took on a series of false identities to fuel his delusions of grandeur
• Inventing Anna meets the The Count of Monte Cristo
• Literary historical fiction covering pivotal moments of the twentieth century during the rise of Hitler and the Second World War.
• Huge current interest in true crime and scam stories, demonstrated by the success of podcasts such as Scam Goddess, Scamfluencers, Queen of the Con and Swindled.
• For fans of Douglas Stuart and John le Carré.

Praise for Previous Work

“Full of memorable images and singing lines of prose.” Sarah Waters

"A searing poetic meditation on stoicism and loss." BBC Radio 4

"A powerful novel... A poignant exploration of love, loss and survivor's guilt." Sunday Times

“A moving portrait of a place and its people … a quiet, sad but brilliant novel.” Times, Book of the Month

"Murray is an evocative painter of landscapes and a deeply sympathetic writer... a space for forgotten voices to sound, bearing witness not just to this tragedy, but to the terrible cost of World War I itself." Daily Mail

"I loved this book." Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize–winning novelist

"A well-written and well-crafted novel from an author at the height of his powers.” Oban Times

I felt glad to be leaving Faroe shortly after my sister Christianna got married. Unlike Bedda with her stern demeanour, she was the one with whom I always felt the greatest kinship. Throughout our years together, it was clear there were similar stirrings of adventure in her soul. We would speak to each ot

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