Synopsis
A study of the relationship between brothers and sisters, with the narrator looking back to her childhood, when she was heavily influenced by her brother Jesper. As she looks back, she reflects on the harsh reality of her life and the direction it led her.
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"A compassionate, moving but clear-eyed view of family relationships... Overwhelming emotional power" (Independent)
"One of the past decade's most moving novels" (Guardian)
"Beautifully written....wistfully sad... Petterson is a writer of great talent and originality" (Scotsman)
"The past and present collide almost violently, and it all sneaks up on you in a way that makes you catch your breath" (New Yorker)
"A stunning introduction to a writer" (Washington Post)
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IMPAC Winner Per Petterson's second novel - the stark, poignant tale of the bond between a brother and sister.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 248 pages. First English edition, first printing. Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born. His 4th book which was published in Norway in 1996. A brother & sister in North Jutland try to cope with changing circumstances as World War II begins. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the spine a touch faded. A beautiful copy! Seller Inventory # 40338274300
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First English Edition. Only light wear to dust jacket, book is as new.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. This was first published in Norway in 1996 with the title 'Til Sibir'.; 7.50 X 4.70 X 0.90 inches; 256 pages; "Evoking the severe beauty of the tundra his heroine dreams of, Petterson's second novel fashions a subtle stoicism reminiscent of Katherine Anne Porter's work. A unnamed narrator recollects her girlhood in Denmark, on a farm in Vrangbaek near Skagen, where she and her beloved brother, Jesper, live with their hymn-writing mother, carpenter father and stern grandfather. The family falls on hard times when their grandfather hangs himself, leaving behind the explanation, "I can't go on any longer." But the young girl endures the changes in her life, including the new rancor of the Nazi occupation of Denmark, by finding security and hope in her deepening relationship with Jesper. She and Jesper sense there is no future in Denmark and long to go elsewhere: she yearns for the cold stillness of Siberia, he for the desert tumult of Morocco. Jesper, a vivacious and sharp idealist ("I'm no peasant, I'm a proletarian," he shouts at the local baron), opens his innocent sister's eyes to the diminishing possibilities and hypocrisies of life in North Jutland. When the Nazis invade, Jesper joins the resistance and, under suspicion, flees to Morocco, leaving his worshipful sister behind. Instead of fulfilling her own goal of a Siberian idyll, she swallows her disappointment and her dreams of travel. Although Petterson addresses the impact of WWII, alluding to the resistance movement and the coexistence of gentile and Jewish Danes, the novel focuses on the profusion of little moments shaping the beauty and pathos of a stagnant life. In an infinitely sad but translucent ending in the vein of Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," the narrator says, "I was so young then, and I remember thinking: I'm twenty-three-years-old, there is nothing left in life. Only the rest." ". Seller Inventory # 17913
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