Roy Jacobsen´s VIDUNDERBARN has just been bought by the American publisher Graywolf.
Graywolf has previously had tremendous success with Per Petterson´s OUT STEALING HORSES, and is happy to present Roy Jacobsen as their “next Norwegian author”.
Rights sold:
UK (MacLehose Press), Italy (Bompiani), Denmark (Rosinante), Sweden (Norstedts), Spain (Grijalbo Mondadori), the Netherlands (Querido), Germany (Osburg Verlag), Estonia (Eesti Ramat), the Faroe Islands (Nylendi), Israel (Keter), Poland (SIW Znak), Finland (Like), Bulgaria (Perseus), Azerbaijan (Qanun), Russia (Corpus), the Czech Republic (Pistorius&Olsanská) France (Gallimard).
“In Wonderchild everything is presented in the compassionate light of great humor, even if the depths are dark enough. Roy Jacobsen masters the art of writing about someone who struggles in a way which makes the reader feel better. … The novel is a small, both sad and merry gem.”---(Five out of six)-Politiken, DK
”As a reader it is hard to explain why one quivers with pleasure all the way through this not particularly edifying story, but the reason has to be Roy Jacobsen’s splendid narrative technique, with which he avoids turning his characters into victims or social cases. Because they are not, and nor do they consider themselves to be so. To the contrary, they are full of initiative, and in the course of the novel they develop new possibilities and abilities in each other. … Here we find ourselves in Norwegian prose’s top league. One should convince oneself about this by personal inspection.”---Weekendavisen, DK
“The novel is rich with both irony and love, fights and tenderness, peculiarities and general beauty in a boy’s world, just before the present breaks through, and where modesty’s small everyday life shines with nostalgia, sadness and guts.”---Information, DK
“A little pearl about childhood’s warm nest and cold winds. … When Roy Jacobsen is at his best, as in this novel, he is equal to his greatest countrymen.”---Kristeligt Dagblad
“A book filled with warm-heartedness.”
(Five out of six)---Børsen
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挪威的報章媒體:「如果這本書沒有成為挪威的暢銷書，那麼挪威的圖書出版市場肯定有問題！」
2009年挪威書商奬得主！
’If Vidunderbarn will not be one of the bestselling titles this fall, I don’t understand any of the mechanisms in Norwegian book business.’ Dagbladet-挪威的報章媒體
Winner of The Norwegian Booksellers´ Prize 2009
Nominated for The Brage Award
Praise for Vidunderbarn (Wonder Child):
’A book that makes you laugh and cry – what more can you wish for? That it does not end after 264 pages, but lasts into next week … Vidunderbarn is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece.’---Dagsavisen