In this hypnotic, shimmering novel, Le Prix Medicis-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg reveals the power of secrets to destroy generations of families. After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off Norway's coast. Searching through the belongings of his late foster father, Andreas uncovers the sinister events of the island's past as a summer colony for deprived children, and learns about the disappearance of his parents. Rich in echoes from Shakespeare's play, The Tempest is a majestic and deeply compassionate novel, exposing the inherited guilt that haunts an island overgrown with myths.
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Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in 1958. He is the award-winning Swedish author of The Emperor of Lies, an international bestseller which received the August Prize. His most recent novel is The Chosen Ones, which was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger in 2014. He divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.
Dr Anna Paterson, an ex-neuroscientist, is now a writer and an award-winning translator from the Germanic languages into English Her most recent translations are The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg, a photo-biography of Olof Palme (a Swedish prime minister), and a biography of Dag Hammarskjold, once UN Secretary General.
