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Like Paul Auster's "Book of Illusions", Per Petterson's masterful American debut novel tells the story of a writer whose life stands still after a terrible accident takes the lives of his family. The grief and guilt he feels over having survived is too over-whelming, and work on his novel stalls as he moves through life in a cold haze. Arvid's only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbour and with a woman whom he glimpses in a flat across the road. Then, slowly, the memories begin to return. And he begins to write again. Poignant, restrained, and at times unbearably moving, "In the Wake" is informed by terrible tragedy and by one man's sense of beauty in the natural world, at times his only source of solace.
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Per Petterson was a librarian and bookseller before publishing his first work, a volume of short stories, in 1987. Since then, his novels have established him as one of Norway’s outstanding novelists. This is his first novel to be published in the United States.
Per Petterson was a librarian and bookseller before publishing his first work, a volume of short stories, in 1987. Since then, his novels have established him as one of Norway's outstanding novelists. This is his first novel to be published in the United States.
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Per Petterson s masterful American debut novel is the story of a man whose life stands still after a terrible accident. Spanning an intense period of only a few weeks, In the Wake features 43 year-old Arvid, a writer who lost his parents and younger brothers in a ferry accident some years before. It is especially against his repressed memories--of his father and mother, and of his still-living brother--that Arvid must regard and define his own life.
As Arvid struggles with memories, existential questions, and a deep sense of the world s injustice, he remains overwhelmed by grief, and guilt at having survived. Work on his novel stalls as he moves through life in a cold haze. But while Arvid s only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbor and with a woman whom he glimpses in a flat across the road, it is this routine contact that begins to slowly remind him of the world---of the beauty and humor we can find in the mundane. As he is reminded, his memories begin to return, and he begins to write again.
Poignant, restrained, darkly funny, and at times unbearably moving, In the Wake takes on terrible tragedy as one man begins to reconnect with the natural world--at times our only source of solace when we ve been left to survive in the wake.
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