I Refuse - Softcover

- "Illuminated by a clear and insightful knowledge of what it means to be human... Petterson is really a masterful depictor of contemporary life. His prose is precise, simple, and yet so magically different that it constantly offers a new insight... Lucky is the reader who has yet to read Petterson." --"Nordjyske, Denmark"

Praise for Per Petterson

"Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear palpable chill." --"Time
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"Subtly incisive . . . Clean sentence after clean sentence, Petterson conveys both the melancholy and the demi-pleasurable sensation of being fundamentally untethered." --Stacey D'Erasmo, "The New York Times Book Review
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"Readers will find that they're in the hands of a master whose quiet, unforgettable voice leaves you yearning to hear more." --"The Boston Globe
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"Per Petterson stands unsurpassed among contemporary writers for existential truth-telling." --"Financial Times"

Praise for Per Petterson
"Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear palpable chill." --"Time
"
"Subtly incisive . . . Clean sentence after clean sentence, Petterson conveys both the melancholy and the demi-pleasurable sensation of being fundamentally untethered." --Stacey D'Erasmo, "The New York Times Book Review
"
"Readers will find that they're in the hands of a master whose quiet, unforgettable voice leaves you yearning to hear more." --"The Boston Globe
"
"Per Petterson stands unsurpassed among contemporary writers for existential truth-telling." --"Financial Times"

- "An extraordinarily humane work... "I Refuse" will lodge in the heart and remain there." --Eileen Battersby, "Irish Times"
- "A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members." --Lucy Scholes, "Independent "
- "Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying... telling each man's story with brutal honesty and poignantly reinforcing a sense of existential malaise." --Matthew Bremner, "Financial Times "
- "Petterson's signature technique lies in drawing the most zigzag line imaginable through narrative chronology but the effect is not of confusion, rather of a dense, layered complexity: it is the realist novel form's mimetic faithfulness to lie itself." --Neel Mukherjee, "Guardian"

"An extraordinarily humane work... "I Refuse" will lodge in the heart and remain there." --Eileen Battersby, "Irish Times"
"A poignant, melancholic novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members." --Lucy Scholes, "Independent"
"Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying... telling each man's story with brutal honesty and poignantly reinforcing a sense of existential malaise." --Matthew Bremner, "Financial Times"
"Petterson's signature technique lies in drawing the most zigzag line imaginable through narrative chronology but the effect is not of confusion, rather of a dense, layered complexity: it is the realist novel form's mimetic faithfulness to lie itself." --Neel Mukherjee, "Guardian""

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