I Curse the River of Time

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while all the established patterns around him are changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, to courtship, and to his early working life, when as a young Communist he abandoned his studies to work on a production line. I Curse the River of Time is an honest, heartbreaking yet humorous portrayal of a complicated mother-son relationship told in Petterson's precise and beautiful prose.

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WINNER 2009 - Nordic Council's Prize for Literature<br>WINNER 2009 - Norwegian Critics' Prize<br>WINNER 2009 - Brage Prize <br>A "Financial Times" Best Book <br>A "New York Times" Notable Book <br>"Petterson's style makes the reader . . . reflect about how parent-child relationships both change and yet can remain static as the years pass and people deal with their inevitable disappointments. . . . This novel will appeal to those who appreciate spare, contemplative writing." <br>""-- "Winnipeg Free Press" <br>"The Scandinavian writer masterfully captures a family's sorrow and disconnect, turning the chasm between a grown son and his mother into a vivid portrait of longing for something just out of reach. . . . Per Petterson is a master at writing the spaces between people."<br>""-- "Los Angeles Times" <br>"Petterson's atmospheric prose "-- "melancholy, tempered, and terse "-- "is the real force keeping the various plots in orbit." <br>""-- "The New Yorker" <br>"[Pette

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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. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into 40 languages so far and won many prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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