Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories
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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.
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Per Petterson. (2015). Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories. Graywolf Press.
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The heartwarming debut that brought Per Petterson, the author of the highly acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, to prominence
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"Shot through with a tender, nostalgic quality . . . Petterson brings the book to an unexpectedly moving conclusion."
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Arvid Jansen has appeared in several of Petterson’s books, including I Curse the River of Time and as the teenage narrator in It’s Fine by Me. This collection of linked stories about Arvid was Petterson’s debut and first published in Norwegian in 1987. Each of the 10 vignettes recounts a momentous event in Arvid’s childhood; the prose is simple and spare, elegiac in tone, yet it packs a powerful punch. Arvid, a frail and sensitive boy who comes across as neurotic in his fears, lives with his mother, father, and older sister in Cold War–era Norway. Arvid’s universe revolves about his family, especially his factory-worker father, a complex figure whose frustrations are expressed in flashes of temper but who is also capable of great tenderness toward his son, as in the moving story “Ashes in His Mouth.” Like Petterson’s longer fiction, the theme of sorrow and of battling the inevitable passage of time permeates these stories, particularly “Like a Tiger in a Cage,” in which Arvid breaks a wall clock in an attempt to stop his mother’s aging, as well as his own. A bittersweet read that can be fully savored in one sitting.
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Readers of Petterson's award-winning Out Stealing Horses (2007) will find this translation of the Norwegian author's first published book, scheduled to appear in conjunction with his latest novel, I Refuse, takes a gentler approach to childhood. Ten brief stories make up this minimalist coming-of-age tale set in the 1960s. Young Arvid grows up in a working-class family in Veitvet, outside Oslo. The book's opening line-"Dad had a face that Arvid loved to watch, and at the same time made him nervous"-establishes the primary importance of Arvid's father in his life. When the local shoe industry collapses and Dad loses his position as a factory foreman, Arvid is too young to understand the financial strain and exhibits an innocent's brutal scorn at the toothbrushes Dad brings home from his new factory job. But the 6-year-old intuitively senses tensions in the household. When Arvid's sensitivity to the anxiety causes bad dreams, Dad shows great gentleness. Then Arvid's grandfather dies, and the boy's first reaction is excitement that Dad, now the boss of the family, will allow him to use a previously off-limits canoe. But at the funeral, he becomes upset imagining Dad in the coffin. By the time he turns 8, Arvid is grown up enough to face grudgingly that others, like his fat neighbor Bomann, have complicated feelings. Bullied for refusing to acknowledge that people have sex, Arvid is secretly "sad" to face the truth he's learned from Dad. A slightly older, tougher Arvid plays war games with his friends, taking boyish risks that could end disastrously but don't, any more than the actual Cuban missile crisis that rivets his attention. Maturing from early obliviousness into a conscious sense of ambivalent responsibility, Arvid finds himself offering Dad the tender care he once received as Dad fights his own demons. Arvid's is far from an unhappy childhood, but writing within a child's limited vision, Petterson uses what's unspoken to wrench the reader's heart.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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These titles are true bookends, as the story collection Ashes in My Mouth was Petterson's debut in 1987 and I Refuse his latest novel, a huge best seller in his native Norway, sold to 16 countries so far. The story collection is set in the early 1960s and introduces Arvid Jansen, seen in subsequent Petterson works, including the recent I Curse the River of Time. In I Refuse, two men meet by accident after a dark incident on a frozen lake 35 years previously shattered their relationship. Then, Jim stood by troubled Tommy; now, Tommy drives a Mercedes, while Jim fishes alone. From the author of Out Stealing Horses, an International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner.
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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