by Per Petterson · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099520740
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In 'In the Wake', Per Petterson introduces us to Arvid, a man facing loss and grief after a ferry accident that takes his family. The novel explores Arvid's disconnection from life and how, little by little, memories of his family return, offering a profound reflection on memory and overcoming. With moving prose, Petterson immerses us in the experience of a man seeking to rebuild his identity after tragedy.
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
