β Scribed by Roy Jacobsen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 BarrΓΈy is born on an island that bears her name - a holdfast for a
single family, their livestock, their crops, their hopes and dreams.
Her father dreams of building a quay that will connect them to the mainland,
but closer ties to the wider world come at a price. Her mother has her own
dreams - more children, a smaller island, a different life - and there is one
question Ingrid must never ask her.
Island life is hard, a living scratched from the dirt or trawled from the sea,
so when Ingrid comes of age, she is sent to the mainland to work for one of
the wealthy families on the coast.
But Norway too is waking up to a wider world, a modern world that is
capricious and can be cruel. Tragedy strikes, and Ingrid must fight to protect
the home she thought she had left behind.
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
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