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Per Petterson - I Curse the River of Time
Released: 01/07/2010
Harvill Secker
Arvid Jansen is struggling to adjust to the changes he's subject to. He's going through a divorce when his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Set against the backdrop of European communism's fall, Prize-winning Norwegian writer Per Petterson's new novel is a moving depiction of life's quiet complexities.
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Los Angeles Times“Petterson's characters feel weather and changes in their lives...” Per Petterson is a master at writing the spaces between people. It is true, we expect this of Scandinavian literature. But Petterson, in this and other novels shatters the caricature into a million smaller, more fascinating pieces...
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The Boston Globe“Petterson’s sentences can stop your breathing...” Petterson offers no moments of mother-son reconciliation, no sudden, tear-filled epiphanies. Petterson’s readers will find that they’re in the hands of a master whose quiet, unforgettable voice leaves you yearning to hear more...
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The New York Times“Clear, colloquial and unadorned...” Where a lot of American prose seems fizzy and over-rich, the sentences in this book go down like an eye-watering shot of aquavit. They evoke a landscape, mental and otherwise, that while a little wintry and severe, is appealing...
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The Independent“Ought to make clumsier authors weep with envy...” As it switches between daily life and haunting memory - "one now and many thens" – the novel abounds in Peterson's delicate dialogue between present and past selves. A masterclass in the alchemising of time and loss into the gold of art...
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Financial Times“Scenes of incomporable beauty...” Petterson's last book was a powerful, perfectly wrought metaphor for problem-ridden attainment of male identity, and this is no less an achievement. He stands unsurpassed among contemporary writers for existential truth-telling...
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Guardian“A work of blackest tragicomedy...” Petterson's writing has returned to its artistic "home", and what's more returned to it with greater maturity and confidence. It is a novel as cold and scintillating and desolate as the northern winter landscapes that are its setting...
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Publishers Weekly“An emotional sucker punch...” Thankfully, there is neither overt sentimentalism nor a deathbed declaration of love between mother and son, but Petterson blends enough hope with the gorgeously evoked melancholy to come up with a heartbreaking and cautiously optimistic work...
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