The Tempest

The Tempest

by Sem-Sandberg, Steve

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I should not have gone back to the island but did it all the same.

After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home on a small island off the Norwegian coast. He is there to sort through the belongings of his late foster father in their decaying old house, the Yellow Villa. But he soon finds himself overwhelmed with unexpected memories, and begins to uncover not only the shadowy history of the island, but the mysterious truth about his family's past...

As he settles into rural life, Andreas begins to question the shadowy history of the island itself. Owned by Jan-Heinz Kaufmann, an amateur botanist and minister in Vidkun Quisling's collaborative wartime government, the island has been a summer colony for deprived evacuee children from occupied Oslo. But decades later, Kaufmann remains an elusive figure, and the ultimate purpose of his wartime refuge--and his relationship to Andreas and Minna after their parents' sudden disappearance--remains mysterious.

Rich in shimmering echoes from Shakespeare's play, Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Tempest is a hypnotic portrayal of the inherited guilt that seeps through generations, haunting an island overgrown with myths.
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