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Product details
- ISBN 9781905147380
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2008
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jonas Wergeland has been convicted of the murder of his wife Margrete. What brought Norway's darling to this end? A professor has been set the task of writing a biography of the once celebrated, now notorious, television personality; in doing so he hopes to solve the riddle of Jonas Wergeland's success and downfall. But the sheer volume of material on his subject is so daunting that the professor finds himself completely bogged down, at a loss as how to proceed, until the evening when a mysterious stranger knocks on his door and offers to tell him stories which will help him unravel the strands of Wergeland's life.
Jan Kjaerstad was born in Oslo in 1953. He read theology at the University of Oslo and made his debut as a writer in 1980 with a short story collection, The Earth Turns Quietly. He is also the author of essays, a children's book and editor of the literary magazine Vinduet.
