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In the Wake
In the Wake: A Novel | Per Petterson
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In the aftermath of a devastating accident that ended the lives of his family, a novelist struggles with overwhelming survivor's guilt and writer's block while limiting his human contacts to a Kurdish neighbor and a woman he glimpses in a flat across the road. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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In the Wake: A Novel | Per Petterson
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Loss, frustration, apathy, survivor's guilt, how to deal with or not to deal with unexpected disaster, loneliness - this book deals with it all in Petterson's own down to earth manner. Knowing that the author experienced a catastrophe very similar to the main character makes it both more believable, but also so much sadder.

Lcsmcat I loved his Out Stealing Horses! 6y
HannaPolkadots Me too @Lcsmcat! 😀 That was my first Petterson,❤ 6y
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