Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends, but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Now Jim is standing on the bridge, fishing, when Tommy drives by in his expensive new Mercedes. Following both men during the course of the fateful day that follows, I REFUSE is the brilliant new novel from the prizewinning author of OUT STEALING HORSES.
Fans of Petterson's other books in English will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, a brilliant novel written by the acclaimed author of "Out Stealing Horses" and "I Curse the River of Time.
Per Petterson's I Refuse is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers. In the same spare but evocative style that made readers fall in love with Out Stealing Horses, Petterson weaves a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning churns up a fateful moment from their boyhood thirty-five years before.
The heartwarming debut that brought Per Petterson, the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, to prominenceYoung 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. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo ...
