I Curse the River of Time
by Petterson, Per (Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1846553008
- ISBN 13
- 9781846553004
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Harvill Secker, 2010 9781846553004. First Edition; First Printing. Copmplete numberline. Hardcover. 233 pages. Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket which has small and attractive photographic promotional sticker on front over. This is a novel from the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses. "It is a mesmerizingly beautiful book about love, regret, family secrets and failed revolution. The novel takes us through thirty-seven-year-old Arvids life and its descent towards a moment of terrible crisis. It traces his parents hesitant support when he gives up his place at college to work in a paper mill, like his father; his experiences as a fervent young Maoist in Norway in the 1960s; the death of his younger brother; the passionate, enveloping romance that led to marriage and children and, for a time, happiness; the failure of that relationship, and its transformation into a source of harrowing pain." .
Synopsis
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. His novel Out Stealing Horses has been translated into forty languages and won many prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1886
- Title
- I Curse the River of Time
- Author
- Petterson, Per (Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund with Per Petterson)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1846553008
- ISBN 13
- 9781846553004
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Mother Son Relationship Cancer 1989 Beach Holidays Brothers Communism Norway QSE
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