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Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down. Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, but one which pushes them ever further apart. And why is his new sister so different from every other child? Child Wonder is a powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, a coming-of-age novel full of light and warmth. Through the eyes of a child Roy Jacobsen has captured the complexities of his characters through their actions, and has produced an immensely uplifting novel that shines with humanity.
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'Jacobsen's novel could be a nostalgia-fest but avoids this fate through the precision and unadorned clarity of its prose . There is nothing cosy or sentimental in this picture of a childhood of barely respectable poverty, in which family tensions are quite literally papered over with fashionable wallpaper . A wonderful coming of age novel by this Norwegian author whom I hope we shall come to know better in English' Sarah Bower, Historical Novels Society. (Historical Novels Society)
'[An] intricately worked novel, as rich in detail and implication as it is classical in construction and stylistic restraint' Paul Binding, Independent. (Independent) --Independent
'A book that makes you laugh and cry - what more can you wish for? ... Child Wonder is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.' Dagsavisen. (Dagsavisen) --Dagsavisen
'What a wonderful novel!' V.G. (VG) --vg
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'[An] intricately worked novel, as rich in detail and implication as it is classical in construction and stylistic restraint' Paul Binding, Independent. (Independent) --Independent
'A book that makes you laugh and cry - what more can you wish for? ... Child Wonder is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.' Dagsavisen. (Dagsavisen) --Dagsavisen
'What a wonderful novel!' V.G. (VG) --vg
'We are a whole planet, a planet orbiting gently and brutally through the sixties, the decade that would change a hat and a coat into a blistering guitar solo, the decade when men became boys and housewives women ... An over-rated, duplicitous and misunderstood decade, MY decade!'
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0857050192
- ISBN 13 9780857050199
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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