Lin Enger

In spare, elegant prose, Lin Enger tells the story of a young man trying to hold his family together in a world tipped suddenly upside down. Undiscovered Country is at once a bold reinvention of Hamlet, and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness.

“...flashes of prose as crisp and haunting as the frozen Minnesota setting...”
“Lin Enger’s first novel brings the heft of Shakespearean drama to the north woods of Minnesota. In an elegant narrative, Enger weaves a winter’s tale of betrayal and ghosts, of a son’s debt to his father and the wages of vengeance. Undiscovered Country is the best kind of discovery -- a riveting first novel that’s a genuine page turner..."
“Lin Enger starts Undiscovered Country with a literal bang and continues to ratchet up the tension. His characters are vivid and complex, and his descriptions of northern Minnesota in winter are astonishing. This retelling of a Shakespearean tragedy is powerful and engrossing.”
“At once both otherworldly and shockingly real, Undiscovered Country reinvents the conundrum facing a modern-day Hamlet.”
“A novel of luminous sentences that carry us across a landscape of love and loss to a deeper understanding of our own lives, and of our desire to be forgiven and redeemed. It is a joy to read.”