In the Wake
by:
Anne Born (author)
Per Petterson (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312427047 (0312427042)
Publish date: April 17th 2007
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/86546194843/in-the-wake-by-per-pettersonI find nothing pretentious or false in a Per Petterson novel. At least in the first two I have read thus far. To handle grief in the most tragic sense of it and bring it off in a believable tale of circuitous events all a part of...
I am adding this book because I just finished and absolutely adored To Siberia by Petterson. I will now read anything by this author. I thought that To Siberia was even better than Out Stealing Horses. This is one of those authors that simply writes so well, that the subject matter is irrelevant. Th...
Exquisitely written, bleak in texture, and hauntingly realistic
It's hard to say much about this book without giving away what there is to discover by reading it. It's like a description by Arvid, the main character, in his own words, of the circuitous path he is taking in trying to reconcile his grief and survivor's guilt about the accidental deaths of his par...
In the Wake reads like a dream diary in which emotions, ideas, and relationships emerge and submerge, never fully formed, but living, in their way, distinct and ever-present, haunting those who keep them close. This is a novel in which Arvid Jansen comes to narrative consciousness with his face pres...
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