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

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July.Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell J...

An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing HorsesNorway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is trying to bridge the yawning gulf that opened up years earlier between himself and his mother. He is in the throes of a divorce, and she has just been diagnosed with cancer.Over a few intense autumn days, Arvid struggles to find a new footing in...

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.Men in My Situation, Per Petterson’s evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. In the aftermath, Arvid’s wife, Turid, divorced him and took their three daughters with her. One year later, Arvid still hasn’t recovered. ...

The shimmering, windswept first novel by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.Echoland is the powerful and emotionally resonant first novel from Per Petterson. Written in the mold of his early story collection Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, it features a young Arvid Janssen, who is now twelve, on the verge of his teenage years and beginning to understand more about the world and his place in it. Set over the c...

Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; t...

The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, Cuban-trained factions headed the rebels, making Zanzibar (in the eyes of Washington) a potentially cancerous base for the communist subversion of mainland Africa. Exotic Zanzibar -- fabled island of spices, former slave-trading entrept, and stepping-off point for 19th century expeditions into the vast interior of the Dark Continent -- had succumbed to the ...

Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers—Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke––read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith—who took the title of his Wealth of Nations from Isaiah (61:6, 66:12)—they show that early theories of capitalism were shaped by particular assumptions that these theorists brought to their readings of the story of Eden in particular...

BEYOND THE CRASHA love so strong, not even fate can tear it apart.Dave had it all-wealth, success, and Rose, the woman who made his life complete. Their whirlwind romance led to an unforgettable honeymoon in paradise, but tragedy struck on the journey home. A devastating plane crash changes everything, plunging Dave into a world where nothing is as it seems.As he navigates a life shattered by loss, Dave is haunted by signs of Rose-c...

ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist!You wouldn't believe it, but . . .James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, grew up mute.Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.Albert Einstein was bullied mercilessly in school.Beethoven's mom almost aborted him.Life takes the strangest sharp turns—and sometimes, U-turns. Robert Petterson—popular speaker, storyteller, and autho...

This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.

Nostalgic for the innocent days of peace and love, and still scented with the patchouli oil of his youth, sweet Benjamin, a 1966 21-Window Volkswagen bus, impatiently waits for his family to leave town so he can sneak out of his garage, and head towards the beach. Unaware that he’s embarking on the grooviest adventure of his life, he cruises along his favorite stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, carved out by a winding, majestic tapestry of mountains and shoreline. One after the other, three...