I Curse the River of Time: A Novel (The Lannan Translation Series)

Petterson, Per

ISBN 10: 1555975569 / ISBN 13: 9781555975562

Published by Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2010

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SPECIALS-This regular size hardcover is signed by the AUTHOR and is AS NEW, still in the shrinkwrap in DJ and slipcase. gray w/red & black lettering Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # Dec27-14gor7

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Title: I Curse the River of Time: A Novel (The ...

Publisher: Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hard Cover

Book Condition:As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis:

An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses

Norway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is trying to bridge the yawning gulf that opened up years earlier between himself and his mother. He is in the throes of a divorce, and she has just been diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, Arvid struggles to find a new footing in his life. As he attempts to negotiate the present changes around him, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, and to the early days of his courtship. Most importantly, he revisits the idealism of his communist youth, when he chose the factory floor over the college education his mother had struggled so hard to provide. Back then, Arvid's loyalty to his working-class background outweighed his mother's wish for him to escape it.  As Petterson's masterful narrative shifts effortlessly through the years, we see Arvid tentatively circling his mother, unable to tell her what she already knows he is thinking. In its piercing portrait of their layered relationship, I Curse the River of Time bears all the hallmarks of Petterson's compassion for humanity that has won him readers the world over.
 

About the Author:

Per Petterson is the author of books including In the Wake, To Siberia, and Out Stealing Horses, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the 10 best books of the year. A former bookseller, Petterson lives in Oslo, Norway.