In The Wake

ISBN-13: 9780099520740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str.

Opis

After a ferry accident, Arvid and his brother are the only remaining members of the family. At first, Arvid feels disconnected from real life, but slowly, the memories of his family begin to return.

Recenzje

Outstanding... Almost every paragraph of his poet's prose is informed by an awareness of the precariousness of life Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.