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100 1 _aDavies, Carys,
_eauthor
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245 1 0 _aClear :
_ba novel /
_cCarys Davies
250 _aFirst Scribner hardcover edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bScribner,
_c2024
264 4 _c©2024
300 _a196 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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
650 0 _aEviction
_zScotland
_xHistory
_y19th century
_vFiction
_917918
650 0 _aHermits
_zScotland
_vFiction
_917919
650 0 _aRural poor
_zScotland
_vFiction
_917920
650 0 _aMale friendship
_vFiction
_912562
650 0 _aPriests
_zScotland
_vFiction
_917921
650 7 _aFICTION / Literary.
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_9659
650 7 _aFIC014000.
_2bisacsh
_917922
650 7 _aFICTION / Historical / General.
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_91654
650 7 _aHermits
_vFiction.
_2sears
_917923
650 7 _aLoneliness
_vFiction.
_2sears
_917924
650 7 _aPoor
_vFiction.
_2sears
_917925
650 7 _aLand tenure
_vFiction.
_2sears
_917926
650 7 _aClergy
_vFiction.
_2sears
_912579
650 7 _aMissions
_vFiction.
_2sears
_917927
650 7 _aFriendship
_vFiction.
_2sears
_96920
650 7 _aIslands
_vFiction.
_2sears
_96586
651 0 _aScotland
_xHistory
_y19th century
_vFiction
_917928
651 7 _aScotland
_xHistory
_vFiction.
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_917929
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
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655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
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655 7 _aNovels.
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_950
655 7 _aRomans.
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