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I Curse the River of Time

I Curse the River of Time

by Charlotte Barslund (Translator), PerPetterson (Author), Charlotte Barslund (Translator), Per Petterson (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

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 are changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, to courtship, and to his early working life, when as a young Communist he abandoned his studies to work on a production line. I Curse the River of Time is an honest, heartbreaking yet humorous portrayal of a complicated mother-son relationship told in Petterson's precise and beautiful prose.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Airport / Ireland / Export and Waterstones ed
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 01 Jul 2010
ISBN 10: 1846553016
ISBN 13: 9781846553011
Book Overview: A haunting literary masterpiece by the bestselling and prize-winning author of Out Stealing Horses

Media Reviews
Per Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist Richard Ford Petterson is a virtuoso ... an incredibly beautiful, thoughtful novel ... the prose is fabulously clear and ripe with meaning Jyllands-Posten One of the Nordic countries' great writers ... Another splendid, magnificent novel. And little by little we have grown addicted Weekendavisen A gripping double portrait of mother and son ... Per Petterson is still a blessedly down to earth storyteller with a great sense of style, who succeeds in finding enough small words for great feelings Stavanger Aftenblad
Author Bio
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.