In the Wake - Softcover
When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone.
In the Wake is the story of Arvid's first steps toward resuming that life, of his gradual confrontation with everything he lost and ultimately with his own role in the disaster that killed his family.
Told with the insight and moral force of his countryman Knut Hamsun, In the Wake is the American debut of a treasured European writer.
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"Per Petterson demonstrates, through his own commanding art, the solace of the written word as well as the necessity of human connection. It is understandable why European readers have long admired his work." --The New York Times
"This riveting story is as universal as love and death . . . Holds the reader in a hypnotic thrall." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Petterson's words have a music reminiscent of W. G. Sebald." --The New York Times Book Review
"A profound novel. Masterfully written." --Library Journal
"An impressive American debut." --Publishers Weekly
A powerful and heart-rending novel based on Per Petterson's personal tragedy of losing many of his family in the sinking of the Estonia.
By the winner of both the IMPAC Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
By the winner of both the IMPAC Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0312427042
- ISBN 13 9780312427047
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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