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 ...
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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. Through the eyes of a child Roy Jacobsen has captured the complexities of his characters through their actions, and has produced an immensely uplifting novel that shines with humanity.
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Add this copy of Child Wonder to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by The Haunted Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Iowa City, IA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Maclehose Press.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0857050184. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; the hard cover and dust jacket show small wrinkles at the left rear corners and shallow crimping at spine ends, otherwise sound.; 264 pp.
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New in New jacket. Signed by Author(s) First U.K. edition. First printing. Hardbound. Brand new. Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy, with mylar dust jacket protector. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated in month of publication, May 2011. No defects, smoke-free, shipped in well padded box, opened only for author to sign, purchased new. He has signed his name and the date only, without any other writing. You cannot find a better copy. BRITISH FICTION (off).
