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Borders by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse. Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian wh ...Show more
Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democra ...Show more
Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democra ...Show more
Eyes of the Rigel by Roy Jacobsen; Don Shaw (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The UnseenThe journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was still happily unaware that truth is the first casualty of peace.The long ...Show more
Just a Mother by Roy Jacobsen; Don Bartlett (Translator); Don Shaw (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen's bestselling Barr y Chronicles. After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barr y, the island that bears her family name. The Second World War still casts its long shadow: former collaborators face cold shoulders, while others wish to leave the p ...Show more
The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
'A compact and compelling novel by an iconic Norwegian writer...[and] thanks to Don Bartlett and Don Shaw's crisp translation, we see it obliquely' - Independent Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in t ...Show more
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Set in Finland in 1939, The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in their wake, before the invading Russians arrive. Timo remains behind because he can't imagine life anywhere else, doing anything else besi ...Show more
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in their wake, before the invading Russians arrive. Timo remains behind because he can't imagine life anywhere else, doing anything else besides felling the trees near ...Show more
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Barr y Island off the North-western coast of Norway - a holdfast for a single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams. And their fears. There is a taint passed down the Barr y line, and Hans and Maria Barr y fear their daughter Ingrid may be affected. The early years of the twentiet ...Show more
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 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, th ...Show more
White Shadow by Roy Jacobsen
Category: Fiction
The sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Unseen "A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative" Paul Owen, TLS 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 a ...Show more
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