I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME by Per Petterson. (Minneapolis, Minnesota): Graywolf Press/Powell's Books, (2010). First edition in English, first printing; Powell's Signed Indiespensible issue. SIGNED to a special tipped-in limitation/title page by the Norwegian Critics Prize, Brage Prize, International Dublin Literary Award, and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winning Norwegian author. Powell's Bookshop deluxe Indiespensible production, issued SIGNED, with a slipcase. A beautifully written literary novel featuring a 37-year-old Norwegian man re-igniting a relationship with his mother, with a 1989 historic background of communism changes in Europe. Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Fine, square, firm, very tight and unread in black boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, red headband and tail-band, slate-blue end-papers; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $23.00 price still intact to the front inner flap; housed in a black linen slipcase with white embossed titles to the front and spine panels. Lacking an Indiespensible companion booklet. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!