In The Wake

Per Petterson, Anne Born

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Vintage
03 December 2007

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there. He does not even recognise his face in the mirror. It is as if he has dropped out of the flow of life.

Slowly, uncontrollably, the memories return to him, and Arvid struggles under the weight of the tragedy which has blighted his life - the death of his parents and younger siblings in an accident six years previously.

At times almost unbearably moving, In the Wake is nonetheless suffused with unexpected blessings- humour, wisdom, human compassion, and a sense of the perpetual beauty of the natural world.

By the winner of both the IMPAC Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

By: Per Petterson
Translated by: Anne Born
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9780099520740
ISBN 10: 0099520745
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 December 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Per Petterson was born in 1952 and was a librarian and bookseller before he published his first work, a volume of short stories, in 1987. Since then he has written three novels which have established his reputation as one of Norway's best fiction writers.

Reviews for In The Wake

Outstanding... Almost every paragraph of his poet's prose is informed by an awareness of the precariousness of life * Times Literary Supplement * A masterpiece... Powerful...compelling...stunning and deeply moving... It's exactly the kind of novel we need right now -- John Burnside * Scotland on Sunday * Exquisite * Independent * Delineates with powerful delicacy the struggle to bear the unbearable * Independent on Sunday *

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Per Petterson, Anne Born

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