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The Seducer (Paperback)

by Jan Kjaerstad (Author), Barbara J. Haveland (Translator) "Let me tell you another story ..." (more)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 612 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia Books; Tra edition (1 Aug 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 745,783 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A magnum opus that can take one's breath away, a work so rich and heterogeneous that its like can hardly be found in recent Norwegian literature' - Dagbladet

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Winner of the Nordic Prize 1999 So how do the pieces of a life fit together? Or, to put it another way: do they fit together at all? Jonas Wergeland is a successful TV documentary producer and also something of God's gift to women, with balls of gold, as one newspaper puts it. One day he returns from the world's fair in Seville and discovers his wife dead on the living room floor. 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 and turns. 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 union 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, an international best-seller and winner of Scandinavia's top literary award, the Nordic Prize, will have you on the edge of your seat, as Jan Kjaerstad weaves his magic wand. Prepare to be seduced.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars imaginative & unlike any other - best book in a long time!, 20 Mar 2006
By Terra (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Seducer (Jonas Wergeland Trilogy 1) (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.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars very, very good....almost......., 7 Nov 2004
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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just waiting for the rest of the trilogy to be translated, 11 Jun 2006
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This review is from: The Seducer (Jonas Wergeland Trilogy 1) (Paperback)
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.
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