In the Wake: A Novel

When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo Norway his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead he has lost touch with his wife and daughters abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone.. In the Wake is the story of Arvids first steps toward resuming that life of his gradual confrontation with everything he lost and ultimately with his own role in the disaster that killed his family.. Told with the insight and moral force of his countryman Knut Hamsun In the Wake is the American debut of a treasured European writer.