I curse the river of time
By: Per Petterson
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Ulverscroft softcover
Publisher: Thorpe; Ulverscroft Softcover
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781444807189
Subjects: Communists; Fiction; Mothers and sons; Life change events; Politics and government
Description: It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, 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 all the established patterns around him are changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, to courtship, and to his early working life, when as a young Communist he abandoned his studies to work on a production line.
Notes: Adult.