Child wonder
By: Roy Jacobsen ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett with Don Shaw
Contributors: Bartlett, Don; Shaw, Donald
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780857050182
Subjects: Families; Children; Fiction
Work titles: Vidunderbarn
Description: Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down.
Notes: Originally published in Norwegian as Vidunderbarn.