In the Wake

A catastrophe has struck Arvid’s family, and six years later he is still living in its wake. Over a few weeks he faces what happened, the lives he and others have led, lives that have ended, and things done that can no longer be undone. Memories of his father press hardest on him, but the question of what grief is also reaches the woman and the children he no longer lives with, and the brother who survived. Among the scenes he returns to are the restless days of driving with that brother after the loss, unable to sit still. The tone is rough and the humour pitch-black.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

189 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2000 by Oktober

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9788270948376 (original)

9781860469947 (Harvill Press, United Kingdom)

9780312343835 (Thomas Dunne Books, United States)

9780312427047 (Picador, United States)

9780099520740 (Vintage, United Kingdom)