A review by anetq
Jeg forbander tidens flod by Per Petterson

4.0

Cursing the river of time may be what you want to do, but it's not of much use. Time will pass anyway; Life, death, divorce, avoided memories and maybe a wasted life? Time is certainly turning for Arvid: His marriage, his mother and his ideology is dying (And he gave up getting an education and possibly lost his family to the latter). And still most of it is unsaid and the heavy weight of the unspoken lies over the (lack of) relationship.
This would be a great setup for tragicomedy, but it stays in the very tragic in the tradition of Strindberg, Bergman and Ibsen - but then it is a Nordic Council Literature Prize winner!