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Framing the life of the 19th-century explorer Sir John Franklin, this novel explores not only the adventures of his career, but also enters a world where the quality of life is considered in "slow motion", where ordinary experience becomes wholly new and unexpected.
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"This is both a wonderful historical novel and a spell-binding individual portrait ... This is a marvellous translation of a masterly work." (The Observer)
"Nadolny brilliantly sets the narrative pace to the rhythms of the frozen landscape, and to the 'slowness which is bred by hunger." (Robert MacFarlane)
"Time, action and vision - a magical hat-trick and one that this translation pays faithful tribute to, capturing grand adventures like a detailed painting." (The Scotsman)
"Sten Nadolny shipped us into beautiful, fatal Arctic wastes with his spellbinding novels." (Boyd Tonkin)
"Slow movements of emotion and plot pull the reader expertly in, and the book with its self-consciously ponderous charm, offers all the pleasures of the best historical fiction." (Daily Telegraph)
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"Nadolny brilliantly sets the narrative pace to the rhythms of the frozen landscape, and to the 'slowness which is bred by hunger." (Robert MacFarlane)
"Time, action and vision - a magical hat-trick and one that this translation pays faithful tribute to, capturing grand adventures like a detailed painting." (The Scotsman)
"Sten Nadolny shipped us into beautiful, fatal Arctic wastes with his spellbinding novels." (Boyd Tonkin)
"Slow movements of emotion and plot pull the reader expertly in, and the book with its self-consciously ponderous charm, offers all the pleasures of the best historical fiction." (Daily Telegraph)
A classic of German literature and Nadolny's masterpiece
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1841954039
- ISBN 13 9781841954035
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- Number of pages356
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