Borders by Roy Jacobsen

Borders by Roy Jacobsen

Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse. Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian who served in the German army in Russia. Breaking the silence around his painful past, Markus speaks of the consequences and madness of war - of the son he lost at Stalingrad and the courage of the men who tried to free the trapped German soldiers with a desperate charge across the frozen steppe. In so doing, Markus reveals a secret he has kept since the war, and a doubt that has gnawed at him for twenty years. Did he, a lowly radio operator, waste a chance to save an entire army from annihilation?

With its mix of vivid characters, real and fictional, struggling to make sense of the excesses of war and its aftermath, this is a strange but compelling novelI highly recommend it -- Rupert Godsal * Country Life *
An iconic Norwegian writer -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
A great European novel -- Terje Eidsvåg * Adresseavisen *
You cannot put this book down -- Kjell Olaf Jensen, * Dagsavisen *

Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen, the first in a trilogy, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017

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ISBN 13	9780857053060
ISBN 10	085705306X
Title	Borders
Author	Roy Jacobsen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quercus Publishing
Year published	2015-03-05
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.