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Child Wonder

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Imprint: Quercus Publishing Plc
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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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. Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, but one which pushes them ever further apart. And why is his new sister so different from every other child? Child Wonder is a powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, a coming-of-age novel full of light and warmth.

'[An] intricately worked novel, as rich in detail and implication as it is classical in construction and stylistic restraint' Paul Binding, Independent.

Title: Child Wonder
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Contributors: By (author) Roy Jacobsen ; Translated by Don Bartlett ; Translated by Don Shaw

ISBN 13: 9780857386380
ISBN 10: 0857386387

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Imprint: Quercus Publishing Plc
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 839.8238 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
Height: 198mm
Width: 132mm