Child Wonder
$27.46
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2012
Summary
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when ‘men became boys and housewives women’, the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears ‘with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase’, and she turns his life upside-down. Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incompre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857386380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857386387 |
| Author: | Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett, Don Shaw |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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‘The kind of novel that never leaves you’ Kristin Ewins, Times Literary Supplement.
’[An] intricately worked novel, as rich in detail and implication as it is classical in construction and stylistic restraint’ Paul Binding, Independent. * Independent *‘A gloriously intelligent novel that is so rewarding, funny, sad and human that the only advice to be given is to read it’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. * Irish Times *‘The kind of novel that never leaves you’ Kristin Ewins, Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Roy Jacobsen
Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. The Unseen, the first in a bestselling historical series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
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