The Unseen by Jacobsen, Roy

The Unseen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771963190)

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The Unseen by Jacobsen, Roy

The Unseen

$16.95
The Unseen by Jacobsen, Roy

The Unseen

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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 Barr y'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 Barr y Chronicles and a moving exploration of family, resilience, and fate.




Author: Roy Jacobsen
ISBN-10: 1771963190
ISBN-13: 9781771963190
Publisher: Biblioasis
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020 pg. 27
Foreword 02/26/2020
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2020
By Roy Jacobsen
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Born in Oslo to a family that came from northern Norway, Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award. He is the author of more than fifteen novels and is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. Another novel, Child Wonder, won the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize and was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. The Unseen, the first of a series of novels about Ingrid and her family, was a phenomenal bestseller in Norway and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize and the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award, selected as a 2020 Indie Next pick in North America, and named a New York Times New and Noteworthy book. White Shadow, the second Barr novel, was published in North America by Biblioasis in 2021.

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