Description
On a remote Danish island cut off by winter ice, a solitary schoolteacher and parish clerk records his days in a diary that is as revealing as it is unreliable. As longing, jealousy, and spiritual despair tighten around his secret feelings for Annemari—now engaged and courted from the mainland—Johannes’s attempts to make sense of love and duty begin to blur into deception. Martin A. Hansen’s sharply observed, psychologically attuned narration turns the stark rhythms of the natural world into a mirror for the mind’s evasions, exposing how self-justification can become its own kind of trap. A compact drama of isolation and moral uncertainty, this modern Scandinavian classic builds suspense through the tension between what is confessed and what is truly meant.
Available Editions
paperback
New York Review of Books
Published Apr 4, 2023
249 pages
ISBN: 9781681377193
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Details
First Published
1953
Language
dan
Translation
From: dan
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Liar by Martin A. Hansen.