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Весь мир тюрьма, а Дания - одно, из самых худших ее подземелий, горько заметил Гамлет. Так ли это? Датская девочка, девушка, потом зрелая женщина, от лица которой ведет повествование знаменитый скандинавский писатель, таит наивную мечту перебраться из Дании... в Сибирь.

Trond ist 67 und zieht sich nach Ostnorwegen zurück. Als ein Nachbar auftaucht, holen ihn die Ereignisse jenes Sommers vor mehr als fünfzig Jahren ein. Damals verbrachte er die Ferien mit seinem Vater in einer Hütte nahe der schwedischen Grenze. Es ist eine Gegend, in der man Pferde stehlen kann. Als in der Nachbarsfamilie ein schreckliches Unglück geschieht, entdeckt der Junge das wohlgehütete Lebensgeheimnis des Vaters.
»Eine wunderschön erzählte Geschichte über die Liebe und das Glück, das Jungsein und das Alter, die Natur und die Einsamkeit. Das Schönste wäre, wenn einer auf die Idee käme, dieses Buch zu verfilmen. Das wäre ein Film, bei dem man ein bisschen weinen würde, aber gleichzeitig auch den Daumennagel anknabberte, weil es so spannend ist.

On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as 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. So he refuses to talk and refuses to take off his sunglasses. In his late teens Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in their home in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him, feeling that life holds other possibilities. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine by Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while everything around him is changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he remembers holidays on the beach with his brothers, his early working life devoted to Communist ideals, courtship, and his relationship with his tough, independent mother - a relationship full of distance and unspoken pain that is central to Arvid's life.