I Curse the River of Time

Per Petterson · 2008 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

In November 1989, as the Berlin Wall falls and his marriage ends, a thirty-seven-year-old Norwegian goes with his dying mother to the family's summer house in Denmark. A spare book of memory and class, it won the Nordic Council Literature Prize and extended Petterson's Arvid Jansen novels.

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