I Refuse by Per Petterson

I Refuse by Per Petterson

I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses ‘Tommy. How long have we been friends.’ ‘All of our lives,’ Tommy said. ‘I can’t remember us ever not being friends. When would that have been.’ Jim said. ‘I think it could last the rest of our lives,’ he said carefully, in a low voice. ‘Don’t you think.’ ‘It will last if we want it to. It depends on us. We can be friends for as long as we want to.’ Tommy’s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. A TLS and Guardian Book of the Year

An extraordinarily humane work…I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate * Scotsman *
A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members * Independent *
A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying * Financial Times *

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.

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ISBN 13	9781846557811
ISBN 10	184655781X
Title	I Refuse
Author	Per Petterson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2014-10-23
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2016 (UK)
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