White Shadow by Roy Jacobsen - ISBN: 9780857058126
Paperback
WWII Norway: Solitude, forbidden love, and a devastating island journey.

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2020

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Summary

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 Barroy during WWII. A note-perfect combination of taciturnity, austerity, passion and weather. Sublime” - Ronan Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul

No-one can be alone on an island …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857058126
ISBN-10:0857058126
Author:Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett, Don Shaw
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:13 October 2020
Weight:197g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

An unsentimental story that combines the cosmic with bracing emotional austerity

An unsentimental story that combines the cosmic with bracing emotional austerity - Daily Mail

About The Author

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for *Seierherren*e in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen, the first in a bestselling historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.

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