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I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
$5.00 NZD
Category: FICTION
A haunting literary masterpiece by the bestselling and prize-winning author of Out Stealing Horses. 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 a ...Show more
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
In the Wake by Per Petterson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone. In the Wa ...Show more
It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Audun is the only one of his family left 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 won't talk about. Stories about his family, such as the weeks h ...Show more
It's Fine by Me by Per Petterson; Don Bartlett (Translator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother s bi ...Show more
Men in My Situation by Per Petterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A tender, scintillating portrait of grief, divorce, fatherhood and a life going to pieces. A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses.A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation is a tender, scintil ...Show more
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a Pre-read / used book. Good condition. "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 best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woma ...Show more
To Siberia by Per Petterson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up. In this exquisite novel, read ...Show more
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