β Scribed by Per Petterson; Don Bartlett
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Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him.;A man without shoes -- Ashes in his mouth -- The black car -- The king is dead -- Like a tiger in a cage -- Fatso -- People are not animals -- Call me Ali Baba -- Today you must pray to God -- Before the war.
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