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Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes

2015-04-07 Fiction
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Release : 2015-04-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by : Per Petterson

Download or read book Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes written by Per Petterson. This book was released on 2015-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartwarming debut that brought Per Petterson, the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, to prominence Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo of his mother as a young woman makes him cry as he realizes how time passes, and the black car that comes to collect his father on the day Arvid's grandfather dies reminds him of the passing of his bullfinch. And then, one morning, his teacher tells his class to pray because a nuclear war is looming. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, Per Petterson's debut, in which he introduces Arvid Jansen to the world, is a delicate portrait of childhood in all its complexity, wonder, and confusion that will delight fans of Out Stealing Horses and new readers alike.

Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes

2013 Boys
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Release : 2013
Genre : Boys
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Book Rating : 001/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by : Per Petterson

Download or read book Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes written by Per Petterson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arvid is six years old and lives on the outskirts of Oslo. His father works in a shoe factory; his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid wets his bed at night and has nightmares about crocodiles, but begins to piece the world together. One day his father is collected in a black car; his grandfather has died, like the bullfinch. When Arvid sees a photo of his mother as a young woman, he understands how time passes; then cries and says he doesn't want to get old. And one morning the teacher tells the pupils to pray to God because a nuclear war is looming...

Out Stealing Horses

2012-07-03 Fiction
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Release : 2012-07-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Out Stealing Horses by : Per Petterson

Download or read book Out Stealing Horses written by Per Petterson. This book was released on 2012-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.

Almost Everything Very Fast

2016-02-02 Fiction
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Release : 2016-02-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Almost Everything Very Fast by : Christopher Kloeble

Download or read book Almost Everything Very Fast written by Christopher Kloeble. This book was released on 2016-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Albert was raised in a Bavarian orphanage due to the mental incapacities of his much older father. Unfortunately, he never knew his mother. When Albert discovers his father only has five months left to live, he takes the old man and sets off on an adventurous voyage to find his real mother. Their venture leads them into the distant past, way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love.

Borders

2016-10-18 Fiction
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Release : 2016-10-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Borders by : Roy Jacobsen

Download or read book Borders written by Roy Jacobsen. This book was released on 2016-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping novel of World War II, set in the Ardennes, from the acclaimed author of Child Wonder The Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and host to the Battle of the Bulge. In a small valley among these borders lives Robert, born of an affair between an American GI and the Belgian nurse who rescued him. In his father's absence, Robert finds a mentor in Markus Hebel, who has faked blindness ever since serving as a Wehrmacht radio operator in Russia. Markus, in turn, confides his secret to Robert--and then he tells the story of his own son, whose fanatical loyalty to Hitler left him trapped during the siege of Stalingrad. In Borders, Roy Jacobsen brilliantly layers these stories of impossible choices between familial love and national identity, culminating in a nuanced, probing novel of shifting wartime loyalties.

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