
The Tempest
Steve Sem-Sandberg(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 21. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-571-33451-3 (ISBN)
Description
I should not have gone back to the island but did it all the same.
After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off the Norwegian coast. He is there to sort through the belongings of his late foster father in their decaying old house, the Yellow Villa. But he soon finds himself overwhelmed with unexpected memories, and begins to uncover not only the shadowy history of the island, but the mysterious truth about his family's past ...
Rich in shimmering echoes from Shakespeare's play, Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Tempest is a hypnotic portrayal of the inherited guilt that seeps through generations, haunting an island overgrown with myths.
After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off the Norwegian coast. He is there to sort through the belongings of his late foster father in their decaying old house, the Yellow Villa. But he soon finds himself overwhelmed with unexpected memories, and begins to uncover not only the shadowy history of the island, but the mysterious truth about his family's past ...
Rich in shimmering echoes from Shakespeare's play, Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Tempest is a hypnotic portrayal of the inherited guilt that seeps through generations, haunting an island overgrown with myths.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
287 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-33451-3 (9780571334513)
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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 2016. 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.
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.