I Refuse

ISBN-13: 9780099584551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Per Petterson

Opis

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

Recenzje

An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there Eileen Battersby Irish Times

O autorze

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.