Tales of Protection - Softcover

Hansen, Erik Fosnes; Christensen, Nadia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156027941 ISBN 13: 9780156027946

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2003

Synopsis

An eccentric scientist lies dead in his coffin reflecting on the past and his last experiment--collecting random incidents from human history and finding the underlying pattern that connects them. His reveries lead him to tell two other tales--one of a doomed lighthouse keeper on a Swedish island and the other of a rivalry among Renaissance artists--and finally he tells a startling tale from his own youth.
For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Isak Dinesen, Erik Fosnes Hansen's imaginative narration brings an original and searching inquiry into why things happen the way they do and suggests a theory of "seriality"--a half-science about the power of human connections.

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Review:

"A breathtaking journey from a nineteenth-century lighthouse community in the Swedish Baltic, besieged by shipwreck and sickness, to a group of scheming artists in Renaissance Rome...Superbly intricate plots" (Guardian)

"His prose is both clear and poetic, and Nadia Christiensen's does full justice to his style, leaving the reader pondering on nothing less than the nature of existence itself" (Kirkus Reviews)

"For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Isak Dinesen, Erik Fosnes Hansen's imaginative narration brings an original and searching inquiry into why things happen the way they do and suggests a theory of 'seriality' -a half-science about the power of human connections" (www.goodreads.com)

From the Publisher:

'Hansen is a writer of genuine depth of feeling and width of interest' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0156027941
• ISBN 13: 9780156027946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512