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| Title | : | I Refuse: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (159 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555977405 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-17 |
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Editorial : An Best Book of April 2015: A portrait of childhood friendship, family and loss by the award winning and best-selling author, Per Petterson. I Refuse is quiet and devastating, told with spare prose that whisks you back to childhood, “when the whole world seeped in through your skin.” After thirty five years of estrangement, childhood best friends Tommy and Jim unexpectedly encounter one another in middle age. What unfolds is the history of their friendship – from their youthful antics in a small Norwegian town, to the dissolution of Tommy’s family when the authorities separate him and his siblings, to a cold winter night on a frozen lake that forever changes their relationship. Haunting and stark, Petterson’s passages linger: the tumult of Tommy’s family being ripped apart is razor sharp and the crack in the ice reverberates long after you’ve finished reading. I Refuse is a story of friendship that is familiar, psycho
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Per Petterson's I Refuse is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers. In the same spare but evocative style that made readers fall in love with Out Stealing Horses, Petterson weaves a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning churns up a fateful moment from their boyhood thirty-five years before.
It is straightforward and well-organized. It has lots of songs that I love to play. I kept waiting for the redemption--the reason the characters went through such hell, but I don't feel like it ever came, in fact I'm not sure about the ending of the book at all. And I am sure you will find more! Also notable figures from history crop up in connection; Adam Smith, Duke of Wellington, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Thomas Malthus.
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