by Per Petterson · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439722175
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«Yo maldigo el río del tiempo» is the contemporary fiction novel by Per Petterson, published by Random House in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The setting is present-day Denmark. Arvid, a thirty-seven-year-old man, watches his life fall apart: he is going through his first divorce and his mother is ill with cancer. As the Cold War comes to an end, he recalls his childhood and youth and examines his complicated relationship with his mother, marked by the difficulty of communicating and understanding each other.
The novel belongs to the Arvid Jansen series, of which it is the fourth instalment; it was translated into Spanish by Cristina Gómez-Baggethun and was originally published in Norwegian in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction and novels about family life, interested in intimate portraits of human relationships.
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
