Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class
suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and
housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri
Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is
electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a
mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue
suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down. Over an everlasting
summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incomprehensible adult world and
his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret,
but one which pushes them ever further apart. And why is his new
sister so different from every other child? Child Wonder is a
powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, a coming-of-age
novel full of light and warmth. Through the eyes of a child Roy
Jacobsen has captured the complexities of his characters through
their actions, and has produced an immensely uplifting novel that
shines with humanity.
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