by Per Petterson · De Geus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044526431
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«Twee wegen» is the novel by Per Petterson translated into Dutch by Marin Mars, published by De Geus in paperback (315 pages, in Dutch).
Two childhood friends, Tommy and Jim, meet by chance on a bridge after thirty-five years without seeing each other. The conversation, tense at first, awakens memories of a youth marked by broken families in which their friendship was a refuge. Although each took their own path, neither has managed to escape that past.
The work was originally published in Norwegian as «Jeg nekter» in 2012 and won the Bokhandlerprisen.
For readers of contemporary Nordic fiction and literary novels about memory, past bonds and reunions.
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.
