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Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.

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Qué tragedia se esconde tras un hombre que ha roto con todo?Arvid Jansen lleva una vida solitaria y sin ambiciones. En noches de insomnio, recorre sin rumbo la ciudad de Oslo en coche o va de bar en bar, buscando refugio en el alcohol y en la compañía de alguna chica. Un día, un año después de su divorcio, recibe una llamada inesperada de su exmujer, que vive con las tres hijas de ambos en una casa en la que no queda rastro de su pasado en común. Al reencontrarse con la que fue su familia, Arvid no podrá evitar sentir el rechazo de Vigdis, su hija mayor, que sin embargo es quien más lo necesita.El autor de Salir a robar caballos vuelve a sorprender a crítica y público con una honda narración sobre la vulnerabilidad de un hombre que ha perdido su camino. Aclamado por su minucioso y conciso estilo literario, este relato honesto y lleno de sensibilidad ha recibido múltiples reconocimientos y está considerado como una de las mejores novelas noruegas de los últimos años.

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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 grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers.Existence has become a question of holding on to a few firm things. Loud, smoky bars, whisky, records, company for the night and taxis home. Or driving his Mazda into the stunning, solitary landscape outside of Oslo, sleeping in the car when his bed is an impossible place to be.Adrift and inept, Arvid feels his life unravelling. Is there any redemption for a man in his situation?'Per Petterson writes about masculinity as well as anyone' Torrey Peters'A rare insight into male vulnerability' Evening Standard

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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 best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone.'One of Norway's finest living writers' Independent'Deeply atmospheric...a stunning novel' Daily Telegraph

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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, Arvid is on the cusp of becoming a teenager: feeling awkward in his own skin, but adamant that he can take care of himself.As Arvid cycles down to the beach with its view of the lighthouse, he meets Mogens, an older boy who lives nearby, and together they set out to find fresh experiences in this strange new world. Echoland is a breathtaking read, capturing the unique drift of childhood summers, filled with unarticulated anxiety.

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