03425cam a2200613 i 4500 1427544363 MeVbMML 20240807164733.0 240412t20242024nyu e 000 1 eng d 2022513428 9781668030660 9781668034811 1668030667 (OCoLC)1427544363 (OCoLC)1384415116 (OCoLC)1416717588 (OCoLC)1424477044 AJM lccopycat e-uk-st 823/.92 23/eng/20240412 D27772 .c Davies, Carys, author 17917 Clear : a novel / Carys Davies First Scribner hardcover edition New York : Scribner, 2024 ©2024 196 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. The two men do not speak a common language, but as John builds a dictionary of Ivar's world, they learn to communicate and, as Ivar sees himself for the first time in decades reflected through the eyes of another person, they build a fragile, unusual connection. Unfolding in the 1840s in the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances--which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions--this singular, beautiful, deeply surprising novel explores the differences and connections between us, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can survive despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, sensitive and spellbinding, Clear is a profound and pleasurable read."--Publisher's website Eviction Scotland History 19th century Fiction 17918 Hermits Scotland Fiction 17919 Rural poor Scotland Fiction 17920 Male friendship Fiction 12562 Priests Scotland Fiction 17921 FICTION / Literary. bisacsh 659 FIC014000. bisacsh 17922 FICTION / Historical / General. bisacsh 1654 Hermits Fiction. sears 17923 Loneliness Fiction. sears 17924 Poor Fiction. sears 17925 Land tenure Fiction. sears 17926 Clergy Fiction. sears 12579 Missions Fiction. sears 17927 Friendship Fiction. sears 6920 Islands Fiction. sears 6586 Scotland History 19th century Fiction 17928 Scotland History Fiction. sears 17929 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Psychological fiction. lcgft 856 Novels. lcgft 50 Romans. rvmgf (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 10426 .b188756577 ddc BOOK 29954 29954 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-08-07 19.99 6 DAVI 66406 2025-01-10 2025-01-10 2024-08-07 BOOK 1