I just finished the Norwegian author Roy Jacobsen's book "Child Wonder" (or "Vidunderbarn", in Norwegian).
The book is set in a suburb of Oslo in the early 1960s - a time when 'men became boys and housewives women'. It is the year the Berlin Wall was erected and Gagarin became the first man to travel into space. The book is about childhood, intensely social-democratic life in Norway in the 60s, and the effect of painful memories. The book is a gripping and unsentimental portrait of childhood and a very uplifting novel. And the story stops at the right place. There is a form of closure and you sense the potential for a new story.
In another book.
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Ja, veldig god bok.
ReplyDeleteJa, denne har jeg i bokhyllen her
ReplyDeleteMen den ligger på vent.... =)
Ikke lest.... og tenkte at jeg har da lest noe fra Roy Jacobsen, men blandet sammen.
ReplyDeleteDen jeg tenkte på:
"Ut og stjæle hester" er en norsk roman skrevet av Per Petterson, og slett ikke Roy Jacobsen.
Men, denne boken er virkelig vakker og anbefales.
Men, kanskje jeg bør få med meg denne her ?
Alltids moro med en ny bok :)
Denne har jeg også lest. Absolutt å anbefale:)
ReplyDeleteTakk for tips, jeg ble akurat ferdig med boken Kunsten å høre hjerteslag, av Jan-Philipp Sendker, og trenger en ny bok :O)
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