Neiden 1970 (Innbundet)

Author:

Ingeborg Arvola

Norwegian title: Neiden 1970
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2015
Pages: 176
Illustrator: Torseter, Øyvind
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202492816
Kategori: Literature and Fiction
Overview Neiden 1970

In Neiden 1970, Ingeborg Arvola writes about childhood with her father in the Kven village of Neiden in the far north of Norway, in East Finnmark on the Norwegian-Finnish border. Father eats apples clad only in his underpants and washes the cups and the socks in the same water. The fishing trips last all night and the drinking binges even longer. Their life together is full of joy, a sense of belonging, alcoholic withdrawal shakes and conscientious hard work. Childhood and adult life reflect each other in this powerful and tender novel.

'This is a beautiful book, written with great love, candour and warmth.'
NORDLYS

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Reviews Neiden 1970

Nådeløst ærlig

"Anbefales!"

 
Solgunn Solli, Altaposten

Er det mulig å lage ei vakker bok om oppveksten med en alkoholisert far?

"Ja, Ingeborg Arvola gjør det i denne romanen. [...]

det hun forteller kommer nær og griper oss. [...]
Det er ei vakker bok, skrevet med stor kjærlighet, åpenhet og varme. Den handler mye om raushet, aksept og forståelse for ulike liv. Jeg koste meg, lot meg berøre - og jeg tror svært mange vil ha nytte og glede av å lese romanen."

Margoth Hovda-Lien, Nordlys

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"Gjennom mer enn seksti små, snapshot-aktige minnebilder eller historier, uten overskrifter eller bevisst oppbygd spenningskurve, med romanens åpningsord «Jeg og faren min» som hyppig gjentatt, gjennomgripende mantra, tegnes med mange enkle ord bildet av en mann som representerer nærhet, utfordringer, spenning og er elsket av den vesle datteren sin også når han drikker for mye, snubler, snøvler, sovner og svikter sine omsorgsplikter."

Steinar Sivertsen, Stavanger Aftenblad

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Author Ingeborg Arvola

Øyvind Torseter (1972–) is one of Norway's most well-known and award-winning authors and illustrators. He has produced books such as Detours (Avstikkere), The Hole (Hullet) and Mule Boy (Mulegutten). He has won a number of Norwegian and international prizes. For Detours he was awarded the Year’s Most Beautiful Book Prize and the most distinguished honour for children’s books, The Bologna Ragazzi Award. The Hole earned him the prestigious French Prix Jeune Alber, and also won him the Norwegian prize for The Year’s Most Beautiful Book in 2013. Mule Boy was nominated to the Nordic Councils Childrens Book Prize in 2016.

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