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Dagmar Selamb
A starved, half-forgotten Selamb found huddled under a reindeer skin, who dines in a frayed red silk frock and cries into the forest for her gun-toting son.
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Also known as Mrs. Dagmar Selamb, Dagmar, a Selamb
First appearance: part i i the cry
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Dagmar lives in the wind-shaken house at Selambshof, grey-complexioned and ragged, so isolated she has not spoken to a woman in years. When Laura and Stellan arrive with boxes of food, she dives into a wardrobe to make…
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- Other
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- Selamb family core
- Protagonist
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- Closing
This is the story’s dramatic climax because Stellan, after searching for Percy in a house that feels alien and…
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See Dagmar Selamb in part i i the cry