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==Historical fiction==
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|author=Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett (translator) and Don Shaw (translator)
|title=Child Wonder
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=1961 was a year of change, a time, as Jacobsen puts it, ''when men became boys and housewives women''. At the outset Finn and his mother are leading a quiet, rather timorous life in a working class Oslo suburb. Then change overwhelms them, not through world events, but in the form of a mysterious child who is Finn's half sister. Linda is not like other children and Finn's attempt to deal with her impact on his family is the central thread in this quintessential story of growing up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050184</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Amor Towles
