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. - Guardian.The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book. - Financial Times.Roy Jacobsen at his very best . . . A fantastic novel. - Dagbladet.A modern masterpiece . . . A central novel in Norwegian literature. - Klassekampen.This is simply a beautiful and moving read . . . A master's hand turning the small into the great. - V.G.