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‘A beautiful sequel to The Unseen, set around the remote and unforgiving island of Barrøy uring WWII. A note-perfect combination of taciturnity, austerity, passion and weather. Sublime’
Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war and Norway is under Nazi occupation. When the bodies from a bombed troopship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid cannot know that one will be alive and warm enough to erase a lifetime of loneliness. She cannot know what she will suffer in protecting her lover from the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators, nor the journey she will face, wrenched from her island once more, to return home. Or that, amid the suffering of war, among refugees fleeing famine and scorched-earth retreats, she will be given a gift whose value is beyond measure.
‘The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner’ Charlie Connolly, New European
Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen is the first in a bestselling historical series, which includes The White Shadow, Eyes of the Rigel and Just a Mother.
