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Lucky Per (Hardcover)
Henrik Pontoppidan; Introduction by Garth Risk Hallberg; Translated by Naomi Lebowitz
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Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsroman
about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and
flees a restricted life in rural Jutland for Denmark's capital
city. Per is a gifted young man who firmly believes that 'you had
to hunt down luck as if it were a wild creature, a crooked-fanged
beast ... and capture and bind it'. He falls in with Copenhagen's
Jewish community, and falls for Jakobe Salomon, a wealthy heiress,
who is not only the strongest character in the book but among the
great Jewish heroines of European literature. Per becomes obsessed
with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will both reshape
Denmark's landscape and correct its minor position in the world.
Eventually personal and his career ambitions alike come to grief.
At the heart of Lucky Per lies the question of the relationship of
'luck' to 'happiness' (the Danish word in the title can have both
meanings), a relationship which Per comes to view differently by
the end of his life.
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City on Fire (Paperback)
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Discovery Miles 3 960
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The New York Times bestseller A Granta Best of Young American
Novelists 2017 'Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous,
warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' Observer Midnight, New Year's
Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and
William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest
fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love
them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the
punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic
neighbour - and the detective trying to figure out what any of them
have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. Then,
on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out. 'Dazzling' Washington Post
'Heart-stopping' New York Times 'Addictive' Independent
'Extraordinary' Observer
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