{"product_id":"just-a-mother","title":"Just a Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\"Taken together Jacobsen has given us an epic of  Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is  subtle and moving\" David Mills \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\"\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a long journey through Norway Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy and adopts him. As such Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community together with Kaja Ingrid's daughter by birth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife on the island is demanding but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even by his high standards his magnificent new novel \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e is Jacobsen's finest to date as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read\" Eileen Battersby \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A  beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work .  . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner\" Charlie Connelly \u003ci\u003eNew European.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A  profound interrogation of freedom and fate as well as a fascinating  portrait of a vanished time written in prose as clear and washed clean  as the world after a storm\" Justine Jordan \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The subtle translation with its invented dialect conveys a timeless provincial voice . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e is a blunt brilliant book\" Tom Graham \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44789183807667,"sku":"9781529417425","price":1119.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478059199781529417425.jpg?v=1762842985","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/just-a-mother","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}