I Refuse

I Refuse

by Don Bartlett (Translator), Per Petterson (Author)

Synopsis

From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. A TLS and Guardian Book of the Year

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 22 Oct 2015

ISBN 10: 0099584557
ISBN 13: 9780099584551
Book Overview: I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses

Media Reviews
An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate * Scotsman *
A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members * Independent *
A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying * Financial Times *
Author Bio
Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in fifty languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.