<DIV><DIV><P>A <I>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</I> NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>It's 1989 and “three monumental events twine around one another in Arvid Jansen's penumbral soul. His fifteen-year marriage is dissolving, his mother is dying of cancer, and the Berlin Wall is tumbling down. The parallels are obvious<B>—</B>worlds are ending, internally and externally<B>—</B>but the analogies Petterson draws among these dramatic endings are not....<I>I Curse the River of Time</I> is a little like the starker reaches of the West, a little like the stonier shores of Maine, a little like Edward Hopper, a little like Raymond Carver....There is a quality that I can only call charm, or something like charm, to Petterson's essentially dark and lonely sensibility....It exerts a gravitational pull on the reader” (Stacey D'Erasmo, <I>The New York Times Book Review</I>).</P></DIV></DIV>