by Roy Jacobsen · Månpocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789170012426
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«Frost» is the historical novel by Roy Jacobsen, published by Månpocket in paperback, with 477 pages and text in Swedish.
Set in Iceland in the year 993, it follows Torgest, a boy who grows so slowly that he becomes known as Gest. At thirteen, after avenging his father's death by killing a powerful chieftain, he flees the island as an outlaw. He arrives by sea in Norway, where he becomes embroiled in new adventures and dangers.
The novel «Frost», translated from Norwegian into Swedish by Staffan Söderblom, won the Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
For readers interested in historical fiction, the Viking age, and the settings of Iceland and Norway.
Roy Jacobsen was a Norwegian novelist and short-story writer. Born in Oslo, he made his publishing début in 1982 with the short-story collection Fangeliv, which won Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris. He won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Gyldendal Prize. Two of his novels have been nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize: Seierherrene in 1991 and Frost in 2004. Several of his books have been translated into English. The Unseen was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2017 and he was twice shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
