Per Petterson - Böcker

Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM**In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his b...

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Söndag, september 1992. Telefonen ringer i Arvid Jansens lägenhet i Bjølsen. Det är Turid, hon är helt utom sig och behöver hjälp, men vet inte var hon är. Arvid hittar henne på den nerlagda järnvägsstationen i Bjørkelangen och kör henne hem till ...

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Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence. **NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM** In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his...

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Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there. He does not even recognise his face in the mirror. It is as if he has dropped ou...

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It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen 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 ...

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Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time.Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension building between his mother and grandmother, Ar...

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From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent fa...

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It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen 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 ...

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Per Petterson masters the art of writing simply about big subjects, and this is the heartwarming debut that brought the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses to prominence Arvid Jansen is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of Oslo...

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Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time.Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension building between his mother and grandmother, Ar...

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Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend but there are some things Audun ...

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Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there. He does not even recognise his face in the mirror. It is as if he has dropped ou...

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In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their ...

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From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing HorsesI refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget.Tommy s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent fath...

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A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author.'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish TimesIn 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by ...

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A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author. 'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish Times In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed b...

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Turid has left with their three girls, slipping into her young, exuberant crowd of friends - the colourful - and a new house with no trace of their previous life together.

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Painting and graphic prints are the preferred mediums of the Norwegian artist Hanne Borchgrevink (b.1951), who over the course time has focused her attention on the house as the leitmotif of her work. She reduces it to its elemental forms, which f...

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Narrada en primera persona per un home de setanta anys,¿Sortir¿a¿robar¿cavalls¿rememora un estiu d'infantesa en quä dos nens, sense saber-ho, reprodueixen en els seus jocs secrets els conflictes dels adults en un poble a Noruega. La vid...

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Arvid Jansen té pare i mare, tres germans i tres filles de la dona amb qui viu des dels dinou anys. Amb una urpada de la vida, desapareixen tots: els uns a bord d'un ferri, les altres en un naufragi que es diu separació.Queda ell, exposat c...

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Tots dos van criar-se al mateix poble: en Jim, ¿educat i covat per una mare piadosa; en Tommy, abandonat per la seva i sotmäs a un pare violent, obligat a treballar de molt jove en una serreria. I tanmateix és en Tommy qui ha fet carrera en les...

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Söndag, september 1992. Telefonen ringer i Arvid Jansens lägenhet i Bjølsen. Det är Turid, hon är helt utom sig och behöver hjälp, men vet inte var hon är. Arvid hittar henne på den nerlagda järnvägsstationen i Bjørkelangen och kör henne hem till ...

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Sisäisen dramatiikan mestarin viisas ja vavisuttava kuvaus siitä, mitä on olla ihminen Kaksi entistä ystävää kohtaa ensimmäistä kertaa kolmeenkymmeneenviiteen vuoteen. Tommy on onnistunut jättämään taakseen väkivaltaisen, hajonneen perheensä, mene...

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