I Refuse

I Refuse

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

Synopsis

I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses 'Tommy. How long have we been friends.' 'All of our lives,' Tommy said. 'I can't remember us ever not being friends. When would that have been.' Jim said. 'I think it could last the rest of our lives,' he said carefully, in a low voice. 'Don't you think.' 'It will last if we want it to. It depends on us. We can be friends for as long as we want to.' 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: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 23 Oct 2014

ISBN 10: 184655781X
ISBN 13: 9781846557811
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.