I Refuse

Per Petterson, Don Bartlett

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English

Arrow
01 December 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget.

'Tommy. How long have we been friends.' 'All of our lives,' Tommy said. 'I can't remember us ever not being friends. When would that have been.' Jim said. 'I think it could last the rest of our lives,' he said carefully, in a low voice. 'Don't you think.' 'It will last if we want it to. It depends on us. We can be friends for as long as we want to.'

Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship.

By: Per Petterson
Translated by: Don Bartlett
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780099584551
ISBN 10: 0099584557
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in forty-nine languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Reviews for I Refuse

An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate Scotsman A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members Independent Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying Financial Times The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books of the Year