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White shadow / Roy Jacobsen ; [translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw].
Van Pelt Library PT8951.2.A385 W45 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobsen, Roy, 1954- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Hvitt hav. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Norway--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Norway.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : MacLehose Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Norwegian.
- Summary:
- No-one can be alone on an island. But Ingrid is alone on Barroy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war and Norway is under the Nazi boot. When the bodies from a bombed troopship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid cannot know that one will be alive and warm enough to erase a lifetime of loneliness. She cannot know what she will suffer in protecting her lover from the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators, nor the journey she will face, wrenched from her island once more, to return home. Or that, amid the suffering of war, among refugees fleeing famine and scorched-earth retreats, she will be given a gift whose value is beyond measure.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Hvitt hav by Cappelen Damm AS in Oslo, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9780857058119
- 0857058118
- OCLC:
- 1090690833
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