Per Petterson

Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

Book Review: Per Petterson’s “It’s Fine By Me” — A Sensitive Tale of a Lost Boy

October 1, 2012
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“It’s Fine By Me” is the story of so many lost boys in literature, who run, who rebel, who are crushed, or luckily find their way.

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