Damn Kid (Innbundet)

Author:

Frederik Svindland

Norwegian title: Jævelunge
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2024
Pages: 304
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202841973
Overview Jævelunge

Nineties Norway. Vito grows up in Porsgrunn with a Norwegian father and a Russian mother. The summer before he starts junior high, he discovers hip-hop, but when the school year starts, he soon ends up in a sketchy environment characterised by substance abuse and crime. It is here he meets Alvarez, a boy from the neighbourhood, the only one of them with a heart, and together they try to find a way out.

Svindland’s novel is a tale of friendship, love and survival in a town full of drugs and hopeless souls. Surely there’s nothing funny about that? Well, then.

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Reviews Jævelunge

Kunne blitt uforglemmelig om han fortalte på grenlandsdialekt 12.10.2024

«Jævelunge er velformulert og full av melodisk flyt.»

Einar Aarvig, Aftenposten

Utagerande oppvekst 13.09.2024

«Svindland sjølv treffer midt i blinken med denne nærgåande, røffe og sjargongprega romanen»

«Jævelunge er tidvis jævla god.»

Oddmund Hagen, Dag og Tid

Ømt om røff oppvekst 04.09.2024

«Hardkokt og ømt om internasjonal oppvekst i grå norsk betong.»

Ole Jacob Hoel, Adresseavisa

Trist, rått og sjarmerende 30.08.2024

«... en rå oppvekstskildring»

«Jævelunge» er en både trist, sjarmerende og morsom beretning»

Oda Faremo Lindholm, VG

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Author Frederik Svindland

Frederik Svindland (1985–) grew up in Porsgrunn. He has studied at the School of Creative Writing in Bø. He made his debut with the novel Pelargona in 2016, which he was nominated to the Tarjei Vesaas First Writers Award for. In 2017 he was awarded the Saabye Christensen Grant.

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