The Conqueror

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Arcadia, 2007 - Fiction - 493 pages
"Jonas Wergeland has been convicted for 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 to 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Jan Kjaerstad is a Norwegian author and a theology graduate from MF Norwegian School of Theology and the University of Oslo. He is known as one of the leading and most original writers in contemporary Norwegian literature and has received a number of prizes, including the Nordic Council Literature Prize which he was awarded for his 1999 work, Oppdageren (The Discoverer).

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