The Tempest

This haunting new novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg, one of Europe's most celebrated writers, mesmerisingly exposes our own burdens of history.

A mesmerising novel about loss, secrets, and the impact of the past from one of Europe's greatest writers.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 ... 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.