Literature and Fiction · Hardback

Wonder Child

Norwegian title: Vidunderbarn

Roy Jacobsen

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 … Wonder Child is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.' DAGSAVISEN'Wonderful! Wonder Child is a new addition to an extraordinarily rich authorship.' AFTENPOSTEN

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