The betrayed child is an underlying theme throughout the work of Herbjørg Wassmo, whether she is expressing herself in poetry, novels, documentary texts, or radio dramas. She writes about children who are not seen--who are victims of abuse, injustice, neglect, and suppression--and shows that betrayal by adults has catastrophic consequences for the formation of the person's identity; suppression of the individual permeates generation after generation and undermines both community life and world politics. "Vi er alle barn av sviktede barn" (We are all children of betrayed children) she has said in several interviews; parents are themselves victims who pass on their pain and fear of rejection. Wassmo's principal literary project is to allow the weak in society to speak. She is best known for the Tora trilogy, about a tyskerunge (bastard child conceived by a Norwegian woman and a German soldier during the World War II...