The Call of the Cormorant (Murray Donald S.)(Paperback)

From the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestseller As the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable "unreliable biography" of serial swindler Karl Einarsson.As a child of the late nineteenth century in the North Atlantic's windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands, Karl Einarsson grows up believing he is superior to his peers, destined for a life of art and adventure. As soon as he is old enough, he sets out for Denmark and begins his own reinvention.Once untethered from his past, Einarsson's lies begin to spiral. He begins a life of serial scamming, swindling everyone from fishermen to aristocrats. He has set his sights on Atlantis, but when his schemes find him in 1930s Berlin, for the first time Einarsson is forced to reckon with something bigger than himself. As the
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