{"product_id":"the-unseen-9781771963190","title":"The Unseen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize - Shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award​ - \"Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel \u003cem\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn on the Norwegian island that bears her name, Ingrid Barr y'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 unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly translated into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, \u003cem\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book in the Barr y Chronicles and a moving exploration of family, resilience, and fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Oslo to a family that came from northern Norway, Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award. He is the author of more than fifteen novels and is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel \u003cem\u003eThe Burnt-Out Town of Miracles\u003c\/em\u003e. Another novel, \u003cem\u003eChild Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize and was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. \u003cem\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e, the first of a series of novels about Ingrid and her family, was a phenomenal bestseller in Norway and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize and the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award, selected as a 2020 Indie Next pick in North America, and named a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e New and Noteworthy book. \u003cem\u003eWhite Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e, the second Barrøy novel, was published in North America by Biblioasis in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618733396242,"sku":"9781771963190","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1eee2141-ce4d-4db5-a3e5-6967679e5912.jpg?v=1732540591","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unseen-9781771963190","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}