num_pages: 606
description: Jonas Wergeland, a successful TV documentary producer with a touch of God's gift to women, returns one evening from the World's Fair in Seville to find his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is a quest to find the killer, encompassing by turns a picaresque and endlessly inventive look at the conditions that have brought Wergeland to this critical juncture in life. From his hair's breadth escape from a ravenous polar bear while filming in Greenland to a near-death experience aboard a passenger ferry in the icy Baltic, the Tom Jones-like experiences that comprise the narrative of Wergeland's life, relayed in Kjaerstad's veneered and acutely observant prose, provide a fascinating portrait of a media icon at the crux of his journey as an artist.
language: English
title: The Seducer
titlecomplete: The Seducer
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 917
series: Jonas Wergeland trilogy
publisher: Overlook