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Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democra ...Show more
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their houses in their wake, before the invading Russians arrive. Timo remains behind because he can't imagine life anywhere else, doing anything else besides felling the trees near ...Show more
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But occasionally someone tries . . . Ingrid Barrøy is born on an island that bears her name - a holdfast for a single family, th ...Show more
White Shadow by Roy Jacobsen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Unseen "A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative" Paul Owen, TLS No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war a ...Show more
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