The Unworthy - Hardcover
by Roy Jacobsen
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Quercus PublishingISBN-13:9781529436112ISBN-10:1529436117UPC:9781529436112Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, World LiteratureBook Topic:20th Century, NorwaySize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCYPT8A7ZK
The Unworthy
"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary Supplement
They're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying...Language:EnglishPublisher:Quercus PublishingISBN-13:9781529436112ISBN-10:1529436117UPC:9781529436112Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, World LiteratureBook Topic:20th Century, NorwaySize:8.10 x 5.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCYPT8A7ZK
Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen, the first in a bestselling historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017
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