| Norwegian title: | Bare en mor |
| Author: | Roy Jacobsen |
| Binding: | Innbundet |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Publisher: | Cappelen Damm |
| Språk: | Bokmål |
| Series: | Barrøy-serien |
| Serienummer: | 4 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9788202688929 |
After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has finally returned to Barrøy. Life has become more stable, but the war still casts its long shadows across the country. Former collaborators face cold shoulders or obscured retaliation. Others simply wish to leave the painful years in the past.
One day a boy arrives on the island. Shortly thereafter, his father disappears. Ingrid assumes responsibility for the boy, and adopts him. As such, Mathias becomes a central part of the Barrøy community, together with Kaja, Ingrid’s daughter by birth.
Life on the island is demanding, but the letters from friends in Oslo and Trondheim tell of a Norwegian society undergoing dramatic changes. Which stories should Ingrid keep to herself, and which ones should she bring to light? What kind of future is she imagining?
Just a Mother is the fourth book in a series of novels that have delighted readers in Norway and abroad. It’s a novel about being a parent, being a part of a community, and about living under conditions that require hard labour. It is also a story about parts of our near past that have stayed in the dark. And it’s about an unusual woman, who has to navigate painful experiences in a rough, weather-beaten, and diverse society on the coast of Northern Norway.
REVIEWS
I demand that this book be read […] Roy Jacobsen writes truthfully, tenderly and sharply about the everyday heroes of toil and care.
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, NORWAY
The middle-aged woman and the sea […] sparkling depiction of coastal life […]
ADRESSEAVISEN, NORWAY
Roy Jacobsen has added a new chapter to his masterpiece. […]
NETTAVISEN, NORWAY
It is a pure pleasure to read Roy Jacobsen’s novel Just a Mother. […] Just a Mother is a novel that keeps the reader captivated from the first to the last sentence.
DAGBLADET, NORWAY
Roy Jacobsen has written a beautiful and intense novel. […] poetic, virtuoso, warm and beautiful. […] No one describes the coastal and cultural history of the Helgeland coast as Roy Jacobsen.
VG, NORWAY
Roy Jacobsen raises the bar in the last volume […] Jacobsen stands out with a luminous mother portrait […] the best Roy Jacobsen has written about life on the Helgeland coast […]
AFTENPOSTEN, NORWAY
The past as a mirror for the present […] Roy Jacobsen’s stories about the islanders on the Helgeland coast gradually resemble a magnificent saga about the basic human conditions in the struggle with nature. […] Roy Jacobsen’s own words that “a historical novel should be a contemporary novel” feel true. The author is a master of dialogues where secrets and trivialities form minefields and tensions.
DAGSAVISEN, NORWAY
With emotion, the reader follows the fate of these modest people. What separates us, and what unites us? For Roy Jacobsen, this is the essential question of this novel. A vast and passionate subject!
LE JOURNAL DE LA HAUTE-MARNA, FRANCE
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«Roy Jacobsen skriver sant, ømt og krast om slitets og omsorgens hverdagshelter.»
«Roy Jacobsen har føyd et nytt kapittel til mesterverket sitt.»
«I et fortettet, poetisk og vakkert språk tegner han et stort persongalleri med kjærlighet og klokskap.»
«Det er en vakker og intens roman Roy Jacobsen har skrevet.»
«Ingen skildrer Helgelandskystens kyst- og kulturhistorie som Roy Jacobsen.»
«(...) poetisk, virtuost, varmt og vakkert.»
«Roy Jacobsen griper tak i leseren fra første stund i sin nye roman om livet på Barrøy.»
«Det er en ren nytelse å lese Roy Jacobsens roman «Bare en mor».»
««Bare en mor» er en roman som holder leseren fanget fra første til siste setning.»
« En sterk og intim historie om en nordnorsk storfamilie som setter avtrykk i vår kulturhistorie.»
Jon Terje Grønli, Gjengangeren«Roy Jacobsen skiller seg ut med et lysende morsportrett (...)»
« (...) det beste Roy Jacobsen har skrevet om livet på Helgelandskysten (...)»
Ingunn Økland, Aftenposten«Roy Jacobsens fortellinger om øyfolket på Helgelandskysten ligner etterhvert en storslått saga om menneskets grunnvilkår i kamp med naturen.»
«(...) knapp og stram skrivekunst av velkjent Roy Jacobsen kvalitet.»
«Roy Jacobsens egne ord om at «en historisk roman skal være en samtidsroman» føles sann. Forfatteren er en mester i dialoger der hemmeligheter og trivialiteter danner minefelt og spenninger.»
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