MAGNUS (POLYGON)

First published in 1973, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s most poetic and innovative novel. Beginning with the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney, who surrendered himself to his cousin Hakon Paulson knowing he would be killed, the narrative jumps to the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. A unique exploration of eternal questions of guilt, goodness, personal sacrifice and peace-making.