{"product_id":"white-shadow-by-roy-jacobsen-9780857058126","title":"White Shadow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative\" - Paul Owen, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautiful sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, set around the remote \u0026amp; unforgiving island of Barroy during WWII. A note-perfect combination of taciturnity, austerity, passion and weather. Sublime\" - Ronan Hession, author of \u003ci\u003eLeonard and Hungry Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo-one can be alone on an island . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Ingrid is alone on Barroy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible war, and Norway is under the Nazi boot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the bodies from a bombed troopship begin to wash up on the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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOr 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Easily among the best books I have ever read\" - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e is a blunt, brilliant book\" - Tom Graham, Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner\" - Charlie Connolly, New European\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47321802309868,"sku":"9780857058126","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3506793482493.jpg?v=1771534704","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/white-shadow-by-roy-jacobsen-9780857058126","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}