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Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
Arvid Jansen is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties, his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid wets his bed at night and has nightmares about crocodiles, but slowly he is beginning to piece the world together. Per Petterson's de ...Show more
Echoland by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark. Confused by the underlying tension between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is grappling with his own sense of self. He's on the cusp of becoming a teenager, feeling awkward in his own skin. As Arvid cycles a ...Show more
Echoland by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension building between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is on the cusp of becoming a teenager: feeling awkw ...Show more
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
A haunting literary masterpiece by the bestselling and prize-winning author of Out Stealing Horses. It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid a ...Show more
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while all the established patterns around him ...Show more
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while all the established patterns around him ...Show more
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses âe~Tommy. How long have we been friends.âe(tm) âe~All of our lives,âe(tm) Tommy said. âe~I canâe(tm)t remember us ever not being friends. When would that hav ...Show more
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends - but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were abandoned by their mother and later by their abusive father, and Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high ...Show more
ITS FINE BY ME by PETTERSON PER
Category: Fiction
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's bir ...Show more
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone. In the W ...Show more
It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson
Category: Fiction
Audun is the only one of his family left with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend. But there are some things Audun won't talk about. Stories about his family, such as the weeks h ...Show more
It's Fine by Me by Per Petterson; Don Bartlett (Translator)
Category: Fiction
"On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother s bi ...Show more