Imprint: Arcadia
Format: B Format
ISBN: 978-1-905147-01-4
Price: £ 8.99
Pages: 606 pp
Date: October 2005
"An enormously accomplished and compelling novel by one of Scandinavia's outstanding contemporary writers. Barbara J. Haveland and Arcadia Books have performed a great service by giving us Kjærstad in English at last." - Paul Auster
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The Seducer
Jan Kjærstad (About this author)
From the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland
Jonas Wergeland is a successful TV documentary producer and something of God's gift to women. But one day he returns from the World's Fair in Seville to discover his wife dead on the living-room floor. What follows is not only a quest to find the killer but also a whimsical look at just how Jonas came to this particular juncture. Following the twists and turns of his life up to an unforgettable, edge-of-your-seat conclusion,this post-modernist novel is an international best-seller and winner of the prestigious Nordic Prize 1999, Scandinavia's highest literary honour.
So how do the pieces of a life fit together? Or, to put it another way: do they fit together at all? What follows is a quest to find the killer but more than that this is a whimsical look at how our hero has arrived at this particular juncture in a life full of twists. Like the time a cruise ship nearly ran him down as a child. 'Now, however, he was on board an old lifeboat, examining a row of onion layers arranged on a plate, before finally looking up to meet the eye of an old actor, well-oiled by now, who lit another Camel and was soon enveloped in a cocoon of smoke. "Be a duke," he repeated, but Jonas has lost the thread, he had caught a whiff of danger, although he could not have said what it might be: a drifting iceberg perhaps, or the Skipper Clement, now only a few hundred metres away from them in the darkness and looking, from the shore, like a resplendent floating palace.' This post-modernist Norwegian novel will have you on the edge of your seat, as Jan Kjærstad weaves his magic wand. Prepare to be seduced.
More Books by this Author:
The Conqueror
The Discoverer
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