β Zoe Matthews; Jade Jenson
π Fiction
π
2016
π English
β 98 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
I Curse the River of Time
β Scribed by Per Petterson
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of _Out Stealing Horses
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Norway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is trying to bridge the yawning gulf that opened up years earlier between himself and his mother. He is in the throes of a divorce, and she has just been diagnosed with cancer.
Over a few intense autumn days, Arvid struggles to find a new footing in his life. As he attempts to negotiate the present changes around him, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, and to the early days of his courtship. Most importantly, he revisits the idealism of his communist youth, when he chose the factory floor over the college education his mother had struggled so hard to provide. Back then, Arvid's loyalty to his working-class background outweighed his mother's wish for him to escape it.
As Petterson's masterful narrative shifts effortlessly...
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