Per Petterson

Broschiertes Buch

Echoland

Beschreibung

Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents in Denmark. Confused by the underlying tension between his mother and grandmother, Arvid is grappling with his own sense of self. He's on the cusp of becoming a teenager, feeling awkward in his own skin.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 155352, 642161
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 108g
• ISBN-13: 9780099552376
• ISBN-10: 009955237X
• Artikelnr.: 47529738

Rezensionen

A compelling mix of fable with the day-to-day account of a working-class boy... It is hard to think of a novel that so precisely and vividly conveys the pain and disorientation of puberty John Burnside Guardian