Roy Jacobsen – The Unseen
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Dublin Literary Award
268pp
Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But occasionally someone tries . . .
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
‘Easily among the best books I have ever read’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
‘A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work’ Charlie Connolly, New European
‘A blunt, brilliant book’ Tom Graham, Financial Times
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Dublin Literary Award
Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But occasionally someone tries . . .
Ingrid Barrøy is born on an island that bears her name – a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams. Her father dreams of building a quay that will connect them to the mainland, but closer ties to the wider world come at a price. Her mother has her own dreams – more children, a smaller island, a different life – and there is one question Ingrid must never ask her. Island life is hard, a living scratched from the dirt or trawled from the sea, so when Ingrid comes of age, she is sent to the mainland to work for one of the wealthy families on the coast. But Norway too is waking up to a wider world, a modern world that is capricious and can be cruel. Tragedy strikes, and Ingrid must fight to protect the home she thought she had left behind.
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
‘Easily among the best books I have ever read’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
‘A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work’ Charlie Connolly, New European
‘A blunt, brilliant book’ Tom Graham, Financial Times
‘An absolute masterpiece. Packed with understated emotion, stunning from beginning to end’ Courttia Newland
‘A masterful and moving work of literature’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave
About the Author
Roy Jacobsen has been twice nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991 and Frost in 2003.In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen was a phenomenal bestseller in Norway.
About the Translators
Don Bartlett is the acclaimed translator of books by Karl Ove Knausgård, Jo Nesbø and Per Patterson.
Don Shaw, co-translator, is a teacher of Danish and author of the standard Danish-Thai/Thai-Danish dictionaries.
