It's Fine By Me
“It’s Fine By Me . . . convey[s] those ordinary experiences close to Petterson’s heart: the pleasure, for example, in the midst of domestic strife, of slowly and very carefully rolling a good cigarette, brewing the perfect coffee and settling down on the sofa with a fine book, like this one.†—The Guardian
I Curse the River of Time
Library Journal At 37, Arvid Jansen sees his world falling apart. His divorce is imminent, the Cold War is over, and the life choices he made to burnish his credibility with the Communist Party now seem sadly irrelevant. Eschewing the college education his parents toiled so hard to provide him, Arvid chose shift work in […]
Out Stealing Horses
The New York Times – Thomas McGuane: This short yet spacious and powerful book ? in such contrast to the well-larded garrulity of the bulbous American novel of today ? reminds us of the careful and apropos writing of J. M. Coetzee, W. G. Sebald and Uwe Timm. Petterson?s kinship with Knut Hamsun, which he […]