Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, Per Petterson
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, Per Petterson
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Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes
Stories

Author: Per Petterson

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2015


Synopsis

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.

About Per Petterson

Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, which established him as one of Norway's best fiction writers. Petterson worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ

This was Per Petterson’s first work of fiction, published in Norwegian in 1987. The short story collection was indeed short, 10 short stories in all, 118 pages. They center around a boy Arvid Jansen….in one story he was only 6 but in some other stories he was a bit older. He lives with his mother an......more

Goodreads review by M.

Nothing to get hung about. Basically just another book for a Petterson "completist" to read. Charming little stories that offer little to nothing to rave about. But no disappointment as I already expected his short work to not do me like he does with his novels.......more