Лучшие книги Пера Петтерсона

Книга «Семь жен Синей Бороды» нобелевского лауреата Анатоля Франса вышла в 1909 году. Все новеллы построены на сказочном или легендарном сюжете. Но самые удивительные чудеса не выдерживают соприкосновения с действительностью: законченный злодей Синяя Борода оказывается простаком; при дворе Спящей Красавицы царят мелочные интриги, разбудивший ее прекрасный принц — только «князек с хорошенькими усиками»; воскрешенные святым Николаем мальчики превращаются в грабителя, ростовщика и еретика; и ничто на свете не в состоянии убедить трезвого эпикурейца Буленгрена в существовании фей. Зато вечные вопросы, волнующие каждого человека, решаются в новеллах неожиданно и изящно. Не в самозабвении ли счастье? Может ли порок стать добродетелью? Всегда ли счастлив богатый человек? И как быть любимым?

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.

Новый роман Пера Петтерсона, писателя номер один в Норвегии и самого читаемого современного норвежского прозаика в мире, это история отношений матери и сына. Узнав о том, что мать больна раком, герой, который сам переживает драму развода, уезжает вместе с ней, и они проводят несколько дней вместе. Эти дни очень много значат в их жизни, они начинают лучше понимать и чувствовать боль друг друга.
Кроме прочего этот роман - удивительное исследование человеческой глупости и наивности, захватывающее описание того, насколько недалеким и в отношениях с людьми, и в политике может оказаться даже умный человек.
За книгу "Я проклинаю реку времени" Петтерсону присуждены премии Северного Совета и Медичи.

In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised and puzzled by…

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.

Per Petterson's hotly anticipated new novel, I Refuse, is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers. In Norway the book has been a huge bestseller, and rights have already been sold into sixteen countries. In his signature spare style, Petterson weaves a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changed the balance of their friendship. Now Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a new Mercedes, and it's clear their fortunes have reversed. Over the course of the day, the life of each man will be irrevocably altered. I Refuse is a powerful, unforgettable novel, and its publication is an event to be celebrated.

Per Petterson masters the art of writing simply about big subjects, and this is the heartwarming debut that brought the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses to prominence Arvid Jansen is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It’s the early sixties, his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid wets his bed at night and has nightmares about crocodiles, but slowly he is beginning to piece the world together. Per Petterson’s debut, in which he introduces Arvid Jansen to the world, is a delicate portrait of childhood in all its complexity, its wonders and confusions that will delight fans of Out Stealing Horses and new readers alike.

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.

At times unbearably moving, In the Wake is a powerful and heart-rending novel based on Per Petterson’s personal tragedy of losing many of his family in the sinking of the Estonia.


From the Hardcover edition.
When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone.

In the Wake is the story of Arvid's first steps toward resuming that life, of his gradual confrontation with everything he lost and ultimately with his own role in the disaster that killed his family.

Told with the insight and moral force of his countryman Knut Hamsun, In the Wake is the American debut of a treasured European writer.