The Tempest

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 translates from Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German into English and writes literary journalism in English and Swedish. She used to work as a medical academic, specialising in experimental and clinical neuroscience. Since retiring, she has translated twenty-six books - a mixture of literary fiction and non-fiction - published mainly in the UK and the USA but also in Australia and Norway. She works for several English-language literary magazines. Between 2010 and 2015, she was reviews editor at Swedish Book Review . Most of Dr Paterson's non-medical writing has been book reviews and articles on literary topics. She has also written a book about landscape, identity and environmental awareness in Scotland: Scotland's Landscape: Endangered Icon . She is married to a Scot and lives in the Scottish countryside. Klappentext Featuring echoes of the Shakespeare play of the same name, this return from the author acclaimed by Sebastian Barry and Hilary Mantel follows a man sorting through his deceased foster father's belongings on an island off Norway, but being struck in this process by secrets from his family's history and the history of the island itself. Zusammenfassung After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home: a small island off the Norwegian coast where he grew up with his sister Minna.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Sem-Sandberg
• Assisted by: Anna Paterson (Translation), Paterson Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2020
• EAN: 9780571334520
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33452-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Norway, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia, TRAVEL / Europe / Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Sweden), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries, TRAVEL / Europe / Nordic Countries / General