Roy Jacobsen

The Man Who Loved Siberia

By Anneliese Pitz - By Roy Jacobsen - By Sean Kinsella (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Nonfiction

Jacobsen and Pitz have adapted the diaries of 19th-century explorer Fritz Dörries. Written originally in his 90th year, so that his daughters ...Read Review

White Shadow (The Barrøy Trilogy 2)

By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

With her aunt recovering from a broken leg in a hospital on the mainland, Ingrid is the only person living on Barrøy. ...Read Review

White Shadow

By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Farmer and fisherwoman Ingrid’s life is hard, sometimes harsh, but she has freedom and independence on Barroy, a small island close to ...Read Review

Borders

By Don Bartlett (trans.) - By Don Shaw (trans.) - By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2015

Genres:

Military

The novel has its centre in the small country of Luxembourg, a tiny state that is strongly marked and influenced by borders and ...Read Review

Child Wonder

By Don Bartlett (trans.) - By Don Shaw (trans.) - By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

It is 1961, the year of the Berlin Wall and Yuri Gagarin, and eight year old Finn is living alone with his mother in ...Read Review

The Burnt-out Town of Miracles

By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryMilitary

When his village is evacuated by the Finnish army, Timo Vatanen, a village idiot who makes his living as a woodcutter, refuses to ...Read Review