White Shadow
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The sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Unseen
"A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative" Paul Owen, TLS
"A beautiful sequel to The Unseen, set around the remote & unforgiving island of Barrøy during WWII. A note-perfect combination of taciturnity, austerity, passion and weather. Sublime" - Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
No-one can be alone on an island . . .
But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war and Norway is under the Nazi boot.
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.
Reviews for The Unseen
"Easily among the best books I have ever read" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
"The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book" Tom Graham, Guardian
"The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner" Charlie Connolly, New European
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jacobsen's vivid sequel to The Unseen (shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize) picks up nearly a decade later, in 1944, as the tiny island of Barrøy in Northern Norway is confronted by German occupation. Ingrid Barrøy, 35, born and raised on the remote island, lives there in solitude, as the rest of her family has dispersed across the country. After bodies begin to wash ashore from a prisoner transport ship, Ingrid discovers a lone Russian survivor, Alexander. As she nurses Alexander back to health, the two fall in love and she determines to help him escape Norway. But when Ingrid finally reports her discovery of the dead, as is compulsory, the Germans become suspicious. Soon, Ingrid awakens in a hospital, the victim of a brutal attack she can't recall. Though readers will get the most of this by starting with the first book, which established a view of the cloistered Barrøy family, this stands alone by finding its drama from the intrusion of the external world onto the island. In terse but lyrical prose, Jacobsen unfolds Ingrid's engaging and intimate story while evoking the devastating effects of WWII on refugees, citizens, and a stoic community of islanders. This series is one to invest in.
