Back in the Day

Ivor and Marco have been getting high since they were thirteen, started dealing at fourteen, by fifteen they were carrying knives. At sixteen years old, they hurtle from one trip to the next, one fight to the next, always watching their backs. Ivor dreams of getting out - finishing school, becoming a lawyer, marrying the girl he loves from the corner shop - but the path he''s on only leads one way.

In flashes of firecracker prose, shot through with rare empathy, irrepressible wit and gut-punch pathos, Oliver Lovrenski gives voice to young men growing up in a brutal and chaotic world.<>

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Lovrenski
• Assisted by: Nichola Smalley (Translation), Smalley Nichola (Translation)
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241705834
• ISBN: 978-0-241-70583-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 204 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Political, Norway, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Social classes, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, FICTION / World Literature / Norway, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary