Amanda er ti år og foreldrene hennes krangler hele tiden. Men en morgen er det mistenkelig stille. Vera og Jond Stålsand kan ikke engang se på hverandre i tre sekunder uten å begynne å knurre som topptrente kamphunder. Nå skal de skilles og det ender i den store foreldrekrigen.
Dette er skilsmisseboken for alle barn som er lei av å ha barnslige foreldre. Med stor humor og med overdrivelsens kunst klarer Erika Fatland å gi leseren et helsprøtt univers med et sårt bakteppe.
Erika Fatland is a Norwegian anthropologist and writer who has written multiple critically-acclaimed books, including Sovietistan and The Border. Fatland was born in Haugesund, Norway, in 1983, and studied at the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen.
Fatland is best known for her travel writing and has written several books: Her first travel book Sovietistan, published in 2015, was an account of her travels through five post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been translated into 12 languages. This was followed by The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage, an account of her travels around Russia's border, from North Korea to Norway. Both books have been translated into English by Kari Dickson, and both received critical acclaim from reviewers in the US and UK.
She wrote two earlier books: The Village of Angels (2011) about the Beslan massacre and The Year Without a Summer about the Utoya massacre. She has also written the children’s book The Parent War.
She has received numerous awards, among them the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for Nonfiction and the Wesselprisen (2016). She speaks eight languages including Norwegian, English, French, Russian, German, Italian, and Spanish. She lives in Oslo.
Veldig artig bok. Mange ganger jeg måtte trekke på smilebåndet. Elsket generalen. Tror kanskje foreldre kan få en litten reise i seg selv av å lese den, og barn kan få anerkjennelse eller noe av frykten bort ved å lese den. Satt på spissen, og det er helt perfekt fortalt på denne måten!