a novel Davies, Carys creator author text Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. Romans. nyu 2024 2024 First Scribner hardcover edition monographic eng

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196 pages ; 23 cm "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 adult Carys Davies e-uk-st Eviction Scotland History 19th century Fiction Hermits Scotland Fiction Rural poor Scotland Fiction Male friendship Fiction Priests Scotland Fiction FICTION / Literary FIC014000 FICTION / Historical / General Hermits Fiction Loneliness Fiction Poor Fiction Land tenure Fiction Clergy Fiction Missions Fiction Friendship Fiction Islands Fiction Scotland History 19th century Fiction Scotland History Fiction 823/.92 9781668030660 9781668034811 1668030667 2022513428 240412 20240807164733.0 1427544363