I Curse the River of Time
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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 as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while everything around him is changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he remembers holidays on the beach with his brothers, his early working life devoted to Communist ideals, courtship, and his relationship with his tough, independent mother – a relationship full of distance and unspoken pain that is central to Arvid’s life.

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Weight 0.17 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2011-6-2
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099536021
About The Author

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short-story collection Ashes in my Mouth, Sand in my Shoes, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into 40 languages so far and won many prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Per Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist
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Tight-lipped with one another, his characters open their hearts to the reader, making us witnesses to their most private selves. He makes the reader lean in, out of the wind, to listen closely…. Petterson has the ability to be simultaneously restrained and terribly tender…Extraordinary skill… There is a quality that I can only call charm, or something like charm, to Petterson's essentially dark and lonely sensibility.

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