The irony is that nothing's fine with this boy at all.
The irony is that nothing's fine with this boy at all.
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alastair mabbott
Set just outside Oslo in the early 1970s (when the author would have been about the same age as his central character), this is a sombre, sparsely written novel about the coming-of-age of one Audun Sletten. He's a proud, uncompromising and very private boy, who made up a story about having scarred eyes on his first day at a new school as an excuse to keep his sunglasses on.
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