Description
Cast away on a remote island, a small group of strangers is forced to confront the thin line between survival and moral collapse. As fear, resentment, and guilt take root, their struggle becomes a tense, psychologically charged exploration of responsibility—written under the shadow of the Nuremberg Trials and the lingering question of how ordinary people become agents of terror. With symbolism reminiscent of Kafka and a language that echoes the intensity of Faulkner, the novel follows their unraveling while centering a protagonist who insists on the individual’s power to choose and to act meaningfully even when hope seems impossible. A haunting meditation on collective wrongdoing, conscience, and the cost of being human, this is a chilling work of existential suspense and ethical reckoning.
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paperback
University of Minnesota Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
ISBN: 9781299945685
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Island of the Doomed by Stig Dagerman.