In a novel that vividly conjures 19th-century Scotland, a minister sent to evict a farmer from his land loses faith in his task.
Though named last year by Hernan Diaz as one of the writers he most admires, Carys Davies still feels undersung, at least on American shores.
As “Clear” opens, a somber, brave, flat-broke Free Church minister named John Ferguson is deposited, after a seasick-making voyage, at a remote northern Scottish island to evict — for a promised payment of 16 pounds — the island’s sole inhabitant, a shy, galumphing tenant farmer named Ivar. John wastes no time his first day on the island losing his footing and falling off a seaside cliff. Ivar discovers him washed ashore, still breathing: “Pale and shining in the cool sunlight, from a distance the naked man resembled an enormous jellyfish.
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