The unseen / Roy Jacobson ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Series: Biblioasis international translation series ; 30.Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2020Description: 268 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1771963190
- 9781771963190
- Usynlige. English
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Main Library | Fiction | JACOBSEN ROY | IB 1 | Available | 33111010502645 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize * Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award * "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
Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy's world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of building a quay that will end their isolation, and her mother longs for the island of her youth, and the country faces its own sea change: the advent of a modern world, and all its unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly translated into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is the first book in the Barrøy Chronicles and a moving exploration of family, resilience, and fate.
Translation of: Der usynlige.
English translation originally published: London : MacLehose Press, 2016.
"Islanders are never afraid, if they were, they wouldn't be able to live here. Born on the island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy's world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of a bridge, and her mother longs for her own childhood island, and Norway faces its own sea change: the advent of a modern world and its attendant unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly translated into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a profound exploration of family, resilience, and fate."-- Provide by publisher.