Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends, but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Now Jim is standing on the bridge, fishing, when Tommy drives by in his expensive new Mercedes. Following both men during the course of the fateful day that follows, I REFUSE is the brilliant new novel from the prizewinning author of OUT STEALING HORSES.

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.