In the Wake - Couverture rigide

Petterson, Per

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312343833 ISBN 13 : 9780312343835

Editeur : Thomas Dunne Books, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection Ashes in my Mouth, Sand in my Shoes, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into 40 languages so far and won many prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thomas Dunne Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312343833
• ISBN 13: 9780312343835
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible