Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories

Written by Per Petterson

Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer

The heartwarming debut that brought Per Petterson to prominence. -- Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Apr 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781666585346

Per Petterson

Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, which established him as one of Norway's best fiction writers. Petterson worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.