Per Petterson's masterful American debut novel is the story of a
man whose life stands still after a terrible accident. Spanning an
intense period of only a few weeks, "In the Wake" features 43
year-old Arvid, a writer who lost his parents and younger brothers
in a ferry accident some years before. It is especially against his
repressed memories--of his father and mother, and of his
still-living brother--that Arvid must regard and define his own
life. As Arvid struggles with memories, existential questions, and
a deep sense of the world's injustice, he remains overwhelmed by
grief, and guilt at having survived. Work on his novel stalls as he
moves through life in a cold haze. But while Arvid's only human
contact is with his Kurdish neighbor and with a woman whom he
glimpses in a flat across the road, it is this routine contact that
begins to slowly remind him of the world---of the beauty and humor
we can find in the mundane. As he is reminded, his memories begin
to return, and he begins to write again. Poignant, restrained,
darkly funny, and at times unbearably moving, "In the Wake" takes
on terrible tragedy as one man begins to reconnect with the natural
world--at times our only source of solace when we've been left to
survive in the wake.
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