Description
The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style.‘A kind of surrealistic writer… Serious literature’ Haruki Murakami‘Mad, sad and funny… Thrilling’ Geoff DyerSinger, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer’s life… ‘An utterly hypnotic writer’ James Wood‘Solstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence…’ Sunday Times Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize
Additional information
| Weight | 0.219 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 |
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| Year Published | 2019-5-30 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784703060 |
| Review Quote | Solstad’s construction of reality is uniquely his own… mad, sad and funny… the behavioural possibilities of the novel are subtly and fundamentally enlarged. |
| Other text | All of the whispers have been right: Solstad is a vital novelist. |




