The Search for heinrich Schlögel
Subtitle: a novel
By: Martha Baillie
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781935639909
Subjects: Literary; Aging; Fiction; Hiking; Fantasy; Amerikanisches Englisch; FICTION
Description: "Martha Baillie's hypnotic novel follows Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a two-week hike into the isolated interior of Baffin Island. His journey quickly becomes surreal; he experiences strange encounters and inexplicable visions as shards of Arctic history emerge from the shifting landscape. When he returns from his hike, he discovers that, though he has not aged, thirty years have passed. Narrated by an unnamed archivist who is attempting to piece together the truth of Heinrich's life, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel dances between reality and dream, asking us to consider not only our role in imagining the future into existence but also the consequences of our past choices."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.