It's Fine By Me: A Novel

Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting all shafts of light and clear palpable chill. Time

Fans of Per Petterson s other books in English will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. In It s Fine By Me, Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun s first day of school he refuses to talk or take off his sunglasses; there are stories he would prefer to keep to himself. Audun lives with his mother in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with Arvid. But he s not sure that school is the right path for him and feels that life holds other possibilities. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It s Fine By Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses and I Curse the River of Time.