by Per Petterson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788249511358
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«Jeg nekter» is the novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, published by Oktober in paperback (294 pages, in Norwegian).
Tommy and Jim were inseparable friends since childhood, but over time their lives took different paths. Thirty-five years later, a chance encounter on a bridge in Oslo, one September morning in 2006, confronts them with memories and with the question of whether that friendship, which seemed so natural, could be lost.
The novel received the Bokhandlerprisen (Norwegian Booksellers' Prize) in 2012; this edition is from 2013.
For readers of Scandinavian literary fiction and contemporary novels about friendship and the passage of time.
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
