The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the
International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together,
Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first
half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving" David Mills,
Sunday Times "Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . .
. One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times
Literary Supplement A childless island is no island at all. Ingrid
Marie Barroy has returned to the island that bears her name,
bringing up her daughter with the other children that came with the
war, who will someday raise their own children until an island that
was empty is singing once more with life. And soon another will
arrive, a child of the war and an orphan of the peace, whom Ingrid
will fight to make her own, and whose interests may, in time,
collide with those of certain others on the island, forcing her to
make a choice she will long regret. The sea brings the island all
it has - herring for salting, eider ducks for down - but Ingrid
knows, has always known, that one day it may wish to take something
back. But until that day, she continues to live by one simple
truth: There is no limit to what you can do with an island, the
imagination sets the only limits, as with the sea. Translated from
the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw Reviews for The Unseen
"Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen
is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is
easily among the best books I have ever read" Eileen Battersby,
Irish Times "A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a
brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by
Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement
that would be a deserved Booker International winner" Charlie
Connelly, New European. "A profound interrogation of freedom and
fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written
in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm"
Justine Jordan, Guardian "The subtle translation, with its invented
dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a
blunt, brilliant book" Tom Graham, Financial Times.
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