In the summer of 2009 the nameless narrator returns to the farm where he was born 37 years earlier and from where he was supposedly carried away when he was three. Though he should know the place well, it is completely foreign to him. His great-grandmother Letta, his mother and siblings, the grandparents in the house next door – he is unable to remember anything at all from his early childhood. All that is left is a photo, a diary and a newspaper clipping about a mysterious disappearance, as well as his file from the orphanage.

But then he discovers the tracks of Dr. Stevenson. A psychiatrist doing research on paranormal phenomena, Dr. Stevenson has sought out a boy in India who claims to know every detail from his former life. Isn’ this the Indian landscape his great-grandmother was carrying inside her? And what lies beneath all the things that are now put into motion? As the wheels of memory start spinning, a dramatic family saga is gradually unravelled.

With Circles, V.S. Tideman has written an intensely suspenseful and moving novel which deals with questions of identity, experience and transgression.