Per Petterson

Per Petterson is a Norwegian author whose spare, luminous fiction has earned international acclaim. He won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and his novels have been translated into dozens of languages, establishing him as one of Scandinavia's most important contemporary writers. I Curse the River of Time tells the story of a man looking back on his relationship with his dying mother against the backdrop of 1960s and 1970s Scandinavian political upheaval. Petterson's prose is spare, precise, and deeply moving, capturing the complexity of family love with extraordinary emotional economy. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers a masterful work of literary fiction. Petterson's writing appeals to readers who appreciate Scandinavian literature, spare prose, and novels that find enormous emotional depth in the quiet details of ordinary lives.