2 Novels by Per Petterson
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Overview: Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. Petterson's debut was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels to good reviews. Petterson is a trained librarian. He has worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. He cites Knut Hamsun and Raymond Carver among his influences. Petterson's works have been translated into almost 50 languages.
Genre: European literature , novel
In The Wake: In the Wake, Petterson's American debut, also deals with loss but from a much closer perspective. The narrator, Arvid, is a forty-three-year-old writer whose parents and two younger brothers died six years earlier in a ferry disaster, leaving him and his surviving brother to mourn them. He cannot write in the face of this tragedy; more than that, he can scarcely exist, and the vivid memories of his family and of his life before they perished comprise a near physical onslaught on a mind overtaxed by grief. Less formally mediated than Out Stealing Horses, in which the tragedies of the past are tempered by the reflections of a less tumultuous present, In the Wake trades on the raw quality of its emotions; its overarching question is whether Arvid can survive or whether the accident will in the end pull him under, too. The overtures he makes into the world of the living--toward his brother, who in the face of an impending divorce is undergoing his own struggle to survive, and toward two neighbors who offer strange, unlikely solace--are the gestures of a man who could be waving or drowning and who himself does not know which he would prefer. The despair Petterson portrays in this novel is of a violent and volatile nature, courting fistfights on the one hand and sexual passion on the other; it defies novelistic resolution except insofar as Arvid can acknowledge its unbearable nature.
I Refuse: Two men meet by accident on a bridge one early morning. Once they were best friends – now Tommy and Jim haven’t seen each other in 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were left by their mother, and later by their abusive father. Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high school and became a socialist. Then one winter, Jim started to doubt whether he was deserving of the friendship. And now, Jim is standing on the bridge, fishing, when Tommy drives by in his expensive, new Mercedes. We follow both men during the course of the fateful day that follows.
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In The Wake: https://www110.zippyshare.com/v/HTwBzfbd/file.html
I Refuse: http://www76.zippyshare.com/v/dnaWFfgf/file.html
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In The Wake: http://fileshd.net/d/J10
I Refuse: http://fileshd.net/d/J0z
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Requirements: Any epub reader, 0.35 MB, 0.35 MB
Overview: Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. Petterson's debut was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels to good reviews. Petterson is a trained librarian. He has worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. He cites Knut Hamsun and Raymond Carver among his influences. Petterson's works have been translated into almost 50 languages.
Genre: European literature , novel
In The Wake: In the Wake, Petterson's American debut, also deals with loss but from a much closer perspective. The narrator, Arvid, is a forty-three-year-old writer whose parents and two younger brothers died six years earlier in a ferry disaster, leaving him and his surviving brother to mourn them. He cannot write in the face of this tragedy; more than that, he can scarcely exist, and the vivid memories of his family and of his life before they perished comprise a near physical onslaught on a mind overtaxed by grief. Less formally mediated than Out Stealing Horses, in which the tragedies of the past are tempered by the reflections of a less tumultuous present, In the Wake trades on the raw quality of its emotions; its overarching question is whether Arvid can survive or whether the accident will in the end pull him under, too. The overtures he makes into the world of the living--toward his brother, who in the face of an impending divorce is undergoing his own struggle to survive, and toward two neighbors who offer strange, unlikely solace--are the gestures of a man who could be waving or drowning and who himself does not know which he would prefer. The despair Petterson portrays in this novel is of a violent and volatile nature, courting fistfights on the one hand and sexual passion on the other; it defies novelistic resolution except insofar as Arvid can acknowledge its unbearable nature.
I Refuse: Two men meet by accident on a bridge one early morning. Once they were best friends – now Tommy and Jim haven’t seen each other in 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were left by their mother, and later by their abusive father. Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high school and became a socialist. Then one winter, Jim started to doubt whether he was deserving of the friendship. And now, Jim is standing on the bridge, fishing, when Tommy drives by in his expensive, new Mercedes. We follow both men during the course of the fateful day that follows.
Download Instructions:
In The Wake: https://www110.zippyshare.com/v/HTwBzfbd/file.html
I Refuse: http://www76.zippyshare.com/v/dnaWFfgf/file.html
Mirror:
In The Wake: http://fileshd.net/d/J10
I Refuse: http://fileshd.net/d/J0z
Please hit the thanks button if you like the post. Obtained these books from elsewhere.