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By: Carys Davies
Narrated by: Russ Bain
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John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted.

Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. The two men do not speak a common language, but as John builds a dictionary of Ivar’s world, they learn to communicate and, as Ivar sees himself for the first time in decades reflected through the eyes of another person, they build a fragile, unusual connection.

Unfolding in the 1840s in the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances—which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions—this singular, beautiful, deeply surprising novel explores the differences and connections between us, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can survive despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, sensitive and spellbinding, Clear is a profound and pleasurable read.©2024 Carys Davies (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Historical Fiction
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An impoverished clergyman is sent to “clear” a lone hermit from a remote island in the outer Hebrides. Unable to speak each other’s languages, these two men find something special in their enforced time together. The writing was beautiful, the plot simple but so compelling. I loved the attempts to communicate in the forgotten language of the outer Hebrides islands - they had so many different words for storm or sea depicting minute differences while other words were completely missing because they didn’t exist as a concept. The author used an old dictionary and some of the ideas captured are so illuminating. Highly recommend this audio book, I was quite moved by it and am still thinking about it!

Short, beautiful, compelling

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Alles war sehr stimmig.Viel emotionales Gewicht für solch eine kurze Geschichte. Die Bearbeitung des Themas „Sprache“ war besonders gut

Die kulturellen Unterschiede zwischen dem Leben der beiden Männer

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