The Conqueror

The sequel to The Seducer finds Norwegian television presenter Jonas Wergeland on trial for murder. Was he unhinged after his wife's death, or is he now more sane than he's ever been? Moving backand forth through time, from Jonas's coming of age to the present-day trial and back again, award-winning novelist Jan Kjaerstad explores the events and impulses that brough this man of many contradictions to where he isnow. Through the research of a university professor hired to write his biography, The Conqueror presents a zig-zaging narrative of a life at once inside and outside expectations, rendered in crisp, arresting prose.