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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Trade paperback. Featuring echoes of the Shakespeare play of the same name, this new novel from the author acclaimed by Sebastian Barry and Hilary Mantel follows a man sorting through his deceased foster father's belongings in an island off Norway, but being struck in this process by secrets from his family's history and the history of the island itself. This haunting new novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg, one of Europe's most celebrated writers, mesmerisingly exposes our own burdens of history. Zusammenfassung 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.
