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Child Wonder
Roy Jacobsen
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Description for Child Wonder
Paperback. A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don; Shaw, Don. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
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 incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, but one which ... Read more
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 incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, but one which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857386380
SKU
V9780857386380
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99-50
About 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 historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017
Reviews for Child Wonder
'[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
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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 ... Read more