Summary
I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget.
The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099584551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099584557 |
| Author: | Per Petterson, Don Bartlett |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
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 * i *
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.
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