Roy Jacobsen

The Unseen

Übersetzer: Shaw, Don; Bartlett, Don

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Caught between their lives and their dreams, a family on an isolated Norwegian island must face the changing modern world.

Produktdetails

• Barrøy Chronicles Nr.1
• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 137mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781771963190
• ISBN-10: 1771963190
• Artikelnr.: 55873773

Autorenporträt

Roy Jacobsen is a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv (Prison Life), which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He is winner of the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and two of his novels have been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene (The Conquerors) in 1991 and Frost in 2004. The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles was published in Britain in 2008. Jacobsen lives in Oslo.

Rezensionen

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.