Lit in Translation

Child Wonder

Vidunderbarn

Roy Jacobsen (born 1954)

Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw

English editions

In English

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In the year of the Berlin Wall and Gagarin, Finn lives alone with his mother in a flat at Årvoll in Oslo. He is loyal and wants rules kept. Then a small half-sister arrives alone on the bus with a light-blue suitcase, and in his mother, always his bedrock, he starts to see sudden weakness and wavering.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
264 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Norway, 1961
First published
2009 by Cappelen Damm
Author's age
55 when first published
ISBN

9788202305246 (original)

9780857050182 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

9781555975951 (Graywolf Press, United States)

9780857386380 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)