The Unseen The Unseen

The Unseen

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

Roy Jacobsen y otros
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Dublin Literary Award

"An absolute masterpiece. Packed with understated emotion, stunning from beginning to end" Courttia Newland, author of A River Called Time

"A masterful and moving work of literature" Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

"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

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

GÉNERO
Ficción y literatura
PUBLICADO
2016
25 de agosto
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
272
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Quercus
TAMAÑO
2
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