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The Unseen

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Shaw, Don Bartlett ...

Series Book 1 - The Barrøy Chronicles
Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award • "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 TimesBorn on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize • Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award • "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 TimesBorn on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barrøy’s world is
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Child Wonder

A Novel

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...

*Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When ... Read more

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*Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When
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The Man Who Loved Siberia

by Roy Jacobsen, Anneliese Pitz ...

Translated by Sean Kinsella ...

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world.Bears, tigers, ... Read more

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Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands and crossed treacherous lakes of ice, always with one purpose: to augment man's knowledge of the natural world.Bears, tigers,
... Read more
The Unworthy

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...

"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary SupplementThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying ... Read more

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"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary SupplementThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying
... Read more
White Shadow

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...

Series Book 2 - The Barrøy Chronicles
The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up ... Read more

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The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up
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Borders

A Novel

by Roy Jacobsen ...

A sweeping novel of World War II, set in the Ardennes, from the acclaimed author of Child WonderThe Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and host to the Battle of the Bulge. In a small valley among these borders lives Robert, born of an affair between an American GI and the Belgian nurse who ... Read more

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A sweeping novel of World War II, set in the Ardennes, from the acclaimed author of Child WonderThe Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and host to the Battle of the Bulge. In a small valley among these borders lives Robert, born of an affair between an American GI and the Belgian nurse who
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Eyes of the Rigel

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Barlett, Don Shaw ...

Series Book 3 - The Barrøy Chronicles
The highly anticipated third novel in a historical series that began with International Booker-shortlisted The UnseenThe war is over, and Ingrid Barrøy leaves the island that shares her name to search for the father of her daughter. Alexander, the Russian POW who survived the sinking of the Rigel, has attempted to cross the mountains to Sweden, and now Ingrid follows, carrying their child in her ... Read more

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The highly anticipated third novel in a historical series that began with International Booker-shortlisted The UnseenThe war is over, and Ingrid Barrøy leaves the island that shares her name to search for the father of her daughter. Alexander, the Russian POW who survived the sinking of the Rigel, has attempted to cross the mountains to Sweden, and now Ingrid follows, carrying their child in her
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Just a Mother

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...

Series Book 4 - The Barrøy Chronicles
The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen’s bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, 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 painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him, ... Read more

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The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen’s bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, 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 painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him,
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The Unseen

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Narrated by John Skelley ...

Series series Barroy
Unabridged

6 hours 59 min

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 theirisolation, 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 unpredictability and ... Read more

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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 theirisolation, 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 unpredictability and
... Read more

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White Shadow

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Ann Richardson ...

Series series Barrøy
Unabridged

6 hours 59 min

The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The UnseenNo-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up
... Read more

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Eyes of the Rigel

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Ann Richardson ...

Series series Barrøy
Unabridged

7 hours 2 min

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 war is over, and Ingrid Barroy leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of ... Read more

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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 war is over, and Ingrid Barroy leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of
... Read more

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Just a Mother

by Roy Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Ann Richardson ...

Series series Barrøy
Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen's bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, 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 painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen's bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, 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 painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him,
... Read more

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