The new novel by Norwegian Roy Jacobsen, “The Miracle Child,” is somewhat similar to his previous books, but stands apart. This time we have a page turner - a drama that can be read in one breath. The backdrop is a lovingly and meticulously recreated environment of the sixties - this is the time of full families and female housewives, the time of the first dormitory suburbs built up with panel four-story buildings, this is the first oil money and the first luxury goods: wallpaper, furniture walls and the symbol of new prosperity - a television. Gagarin's flight, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, Kennedy's assassination... The hero of the book, the smart and gentle boy Finn, is happy. His mother is raising him because his dad, a crane operator, left them and then died completely. This autumn, his and his mother's life changes completely - before they have time to rent out a room to a tenant and begin to get used to him, a strange little girl - Finn's half-sister - falls on their heads. She only has a tiny suitcase with her, and in it is a “bomb” that is still destined to explode. Thus begins this heartbreaking story of love, loyalty and betrayal.  Family drama "Miracle Child" remained on the bestseller list for a year and a half, selling 115,000 copies. The novel has been translated into 25 languages and received the 2009 Booksellers Union Prize.