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The Unseen (Biblioasis International Translation Series) by Roy Jacobsen (Author), Don Shaw (Translator), Don Bartlett (Translator)

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Authors: Roy Jacobsen (Author), Don Shaw (Translator), Don Bartlett (Translator)

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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series (Book 31)
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Biblioasis (April 21, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1771963190
ISBN-13: 978-1771963190
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.2 x 7.2 inches

Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award

Islanders are never afraid, if they were, they wouldn’t be able to live here. 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 attendant unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly translated into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a profoundly moving exploration of family, resilience, and fate.

Reviews

"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."―Irish Times

"A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner."―New European

"A profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm.”―The Guardian

"The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book."―Financial Times

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