Child Wonder (Innbundet)

Author:

Roy Jacobsen

Norwegian title: Vidunderbarn
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2009
Pages: 265
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202305246
Overview Vidunderbarn

Little Finn lives with his mother at Årvoll, Oslo. During the year of President Kennedy, the Berlin Wall and Jurij Gagarin, life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. But one day a mysterious little half-sister arrives “with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase” and turns life upside-down. This powerful depiction of childhood shows how both wonderful and dangerous it is to be a child.

Winner of the Norwegian Booksellers Award 2009

'What a wonderful novel!'
VG

'This falls most beautiful tale'
VÅRT LAND

'Warm, hurtfull and well modulated about a turningpoint in life.'
STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

'A book that makes you laugh and cry – what more can you wish for? That it does not end after 264 pages, but lasts into next week … Child Wonder is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.'
DAGSAVISEN

'Wonderful! Child Wonder is a new addition to an extraordinarily rich authorship.'
AFTENPOSTEN

'If Child Wonder is not one of the bestselling titles this fall, I don’t understand any of the mechanisms in Norwegian book business.'
DAGBLADET

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Vinner av bokhandlerprisen 2009

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Reviews Vidunderbarn

"Hvis ikke Vidunderbarn blir en av høstens bestselgere, så skjønner ikke denne anmelderen noe som helst av mekanismene i norsk bokbransje."

Thomas Marco Blatt, Dagbladet

"En bok til å le og gråte av - hva mer kan en leser ønske seg? ... Vidunderbarn er noe så enestående som et helstøpt lite mesterverk."

Turid Larsen, Dagsavisen

"Det er vidunderlig mye å glede seg over i Roy Jacobsens nye roman ... en ny tilvekst til et ualminnelig rikt forfatterskap."

Terje Stemland, Aftenposten

"... det er vanskelig, nesten umulig, å tenke seg at noen vil bli skuffet."

Bjørn Gabrielsen, Dagens Næringsliv

Cappelen Damm

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Author Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen (b. 1954) is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary authors in Norway, and has since his sensational debut in 1982, with the short story collection Prison Life, which won him the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas’ Debutant Prize, developed into an original and daring author with a special interest in the underlying psychological interplay in human relationships. He has been nominated three times for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and twice for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2017 he was shortlisted for both the Man Booker International Prize, as the first Norwegian author ever, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Unseen.

In 2013 Jacobsen’s authorship reached a new milestone with the publication of The Unseen, book one in his now completed Barrøy trilogy. It is set in the first half of the 20th century on an island on the North-Western coast of Norway, and is a monument over human courage and life-saving practical and social knowledge. White Shadow followed in 2015, The Eyes of Rigel in 2017 and Just a Mother in 2020. The Barrøy quartet became an immediate critically acclaimed sales success, it has been translated into 28 languages, and has sold nearly 500.000 copies in Norway alone. In total, Jacobsen has been translated into 38 languages

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