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OverviewI refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. The major new novel from the author of Out Stealing Horses From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Per Petterson , Don BartlettPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.202kg ISBN: 9780099584551ISBN 10: 0099584557 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 22 October 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAn extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members -- Lucy Scholes Independent Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying...telling each man's story with brutal honesty and poignantly reinforcing a sense of existential malaise -- Matthew Bremner Financial Times Petterson's signature technique lies in drawing the most zigzag line imaginable through narrative chronology but the effect is not of confusion, rather of a dense, layered complexity: it is the realist novel form's mimetic faithfulness to lie itself -- Neel Mukherjee Guardian The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books 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 Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying Financial Times The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books of the Year Author InformationPer 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |