White Shadow

Barrøy, Book 2

By: Roy Jacobsen, Don Shaw - translator, Don Bartlett - translator

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker and Dublin Impac Award-shortlisted The Unseen

No one can be alone on an island . . . but Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: the Nazi occupation of Norway. When the bodies from a bombed vessel carrying Russian prisoners of war begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can't know that one will not only be alive, but could be the answer to a lifetime of loneliness—nor can she imagine what suffering she will endure in hiding her lover from the German authorities, or the journey she will face, after being wrenched from her island as consequence for protecting him, to return home. Or especially that, surrounded by the horrors of battle, among refugees fleeing famine and scorched earth, she will receive a gift, the value of which is beyond measure.

©2016 Cappelen Damm AS; English translation copyright 2016 by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw (P)2022 Tantor