It's Fine By Me

By: Per Petterson, Don Bartlett (Transcribed by)

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Paperback | 1 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend - but there are some things Audun won't talk about. Stories about his family, the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling.

About the Author

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection Ashes in my Mouth, Sand in my Shoes, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into forty-nine languages so far and won many prizes. Don Bartlett lives in Norfolk and works as a freelance translator of Scandinavian literature. He has translated, or co-translated, Norwegian novels by Lars Saabye Christensen, Roy Jacobson, Ingvar Ambjornsen, Kjell Ola Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen, Pernille Rygg and Jo Nesbo.

Industry Reviews

* an intriguing story featuring all of the Petterson quirks - charm, melancholy, loneliness, the rifts between parents and children, the bonds between siblings and friends * Reading Matters *
Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read * Stylist *
Beguiling and beautiful... a gripping and subtle coming-of-age story, ripe with melancholy... graceful and moving * Daily Telegraph *
Executed with not only a magical attention to detail but also with heart-swelling affection... page after page of clear, glitchless and truthful writing * Financial Times *
A movingly observed story about growing up * The Times *

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