- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Arcadia Books; Tra edition (8 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1900850842
- ISBN-13: 978-1900850841
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 935,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jonas Wergeland is a successful TV documentaryproducer and something of God's gift to women. Butone day he returns from the world's fair inSeville to discover his wife dead on the livingroom floor. What follows is not only a quest tofind the killer but also a whimsical look at justhow Jonas came to this particular juncture.Following the twists and turns of his life up toan unforgettable, edge-of-your-seat conclusion,this post-modernist novel is an internationalbest-seller and winner of the prestigious NordicPrize 1999, Scandinavia's highest literary honour.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I won't even try to describe this book - because I know I'd fail. But if you love reading and are fed up with quickly-churned out "bestsellers", then give this book a try. Imaginative down to the last detail, unconventionally told, a great read. I'm only sorry that the book had to end and that there are not other books by the author available in English translation.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is an astonishing book, funny, apt, moving and thoroughly enjoyable. It doesn't matter at all that the chapters are not sequential, adds to the whole, in fact, and each is memorable in its own way. It's also good on Bach and Duke Ellington and wonderfully satirical about Norway and Norwegians.
8 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An elusive book; but as one blurb describes it as postmodern, that's part of the territory. There are some terrific passages, some dull ones, but you never quite get to know Jonas - its as if he is always just out of reach. I'm sure this is the point - how well do you really know the people in your life?
So don't approach this looking for any linear narrative, and for any "happy ever afters", because you could argue that its not the job of the writer to do this anymore. Go and read Nicholas Nickleby if you want that. Poor Smike!
So good, but...episodic, lots of narrative games. Lots of incidents from Jonas's life - but the esteem in which he is held by repute doesn't seem to be merited by what we are told of his life in attaining that esteem. Postmodern, eh? Are we being told that celebrity isn't actually based on merit? If we are, is that a surprise, Saturday Night TV presenters?
Whatever, I kept turning the pages. Which IS what books are supposed to make you do. I'm pleased to have read it. Good........but.......
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