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Description for I Refuse
Paperback. Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses
I refuse to compromise.
I refuse to forgive.
I refuse to forget.
Tommy’s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship.
A TLS and Guardian Book of the Year
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099584551
SKU
KKD0007733
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Per Petterson
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.
Reviews for I Refuse
An extraordinarily humane work…I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate
Scotsman
A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members
Independent
A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members
Lucy Scholes
Independent
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying
Financial Times
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying…telling each man’s story with brutal honesty and poignantly reinforcing a sense of existential malaise
Matthew Bremner
Financial Times
The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences
Blake Morrison
Guardian Books of the Year
Petterson’s signature technique lies in drawing the most zigzag line imaginable through narrative chronology but the effect is not of confusion, rather of a dense, layered complexity: it is the realist novel form’s mimetic faithfulness to life itself
Neel Mukherjee
Guardian
A strenuous examination of how grief reverberates down the decades
Anthony Cummins
Metro
A moving story of a group of lost souls, all struggling to make sense of their existence and exert some control over their lives
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Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate
Scotsman
A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members
Independent
A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members
Lucy Scholes
Independent
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying
Financial Times
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying…telling each man’s story with brutal honesty and poignantly reinforcing a sense of existential malaise
Matthew Bremner
Financial Times
The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences
Blake Morrison
Guardian Books of the Year
Petterson’s signature technique lies in drawing the most zigzag line imaginable through narrative chronology but the effect is not of confusion, rather of a dense, layered complexity: it is the realist novel form’s mimetic faithfulness to life itself
Neel Mukherjee
Guardian
A strenuous examination of how grief reverberates down the decades
Anthony Cummins
Metro
A moving story of a group of lost souls, all struggling to make sense of their existence and exert some control over their lives
i