On a tiny island off Norway besieged by weather and the sea, the compelling story of one family unfolds, in Roy Jacobsen’s profound and haunting novel
By Roy Jacobsen
Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw
Don Bartlett
Don Bartlett is a freelance translator of Scandinavian literature
He has translated, or co-translated, Norwegian novels by Karl Ove Knausgård, Lars Saabye Christensen, Roy Jacobsen, Ingvar Ambjornsen, Kjell Ola Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen, Pernille Rygg, and Jo Nesbo. He currently lives in Norfolk where he was born in 1948.