Praise for White Shadow
"White Shadow retains many of The Unseen's pleasures, not least Jacobsen's clean, spare prose . . . a noble tribute to the human struggle for decency."–Daniel Marc Janes, Times Literary Supplement
"An unsentimental story that combines the cosmic with bracing emotional austerity."–Claire Allfree, Daily Mail
"Disarmingly plainspoken narration brings into sharp relief both individuals and a world in wartime crisis."–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A powerful read."–David Mills, Sunday Times
Praise for The Unseen
"Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read."–Irish Times
"A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner."–New European
"A profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm."–The Guardian
"The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book."–Financial Times
