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.

Author: Roy Jacobsen
Translator: Don Shaw / Don Bartlett
Publisher: Biblioasis
Pages: 208pp
Size: 5.25 x 7.5
Notes: paperback
Release Date: April 21, 2020
ISBN: 978-1771963190