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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.
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.
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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
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Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780099520740 |
ISBN-10: | 0099520745 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Petterson, Per |
Hersteller: | Vintage |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 198 x 129 x 13 mm |
Von/Mit: | Per Petterson |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.10.2007 |
Gewicht: | 0,256 kg |
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
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Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780099520740 |
ISBN-10: | 0099520745 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Petterson, Per |
Hersteller: | Vintage |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 198 x 129 x 13 mm |
Von/Mit: | Per Petterson |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.10.2007 |
Gewicht: | 0,256 kg |
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