Praise for Just a Mother "Just a Mother, first published in Norwegian in 2020 and now once again co-translated with great skill by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, is the longest and most engrossing of the series so far." --The Times Literary Supplement "A beautifully written and profoundly moving exploration of conflict, love and human endurance." --St. Catherines Standard Praise for the Barrøy Chronicles "Richer, even more provocative . The heroine of Roy Jacobsen's White Shadow knows every inch of her home turf, a tiny island off the coast of northern Norway that her people have inhabited for generations." --Alida Becker, New York Times "Disarmingly plainspoken narration brings into sharp relief both individuals and a world in wartime crisis." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Jacobson offers a portrait of a woman who is single-minded but not rigidly so, purposeful but not devoid of feeling . The intensity of feeling just beyond the actions described, and the effort itself of forging language to capture their evanescent reality, seems like a literary accomplishment in the family of more overtly 'sophisticated' novelists like Thomas Bernhard or W.

G. Sebald." --Book Post "The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book." --Financial Times.