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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784703066Number of pages: 272Weight: 219 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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Solstad's construction of reality is uniquely his own... mad,sad and funny... the behavioural possibilities of the novel are subtly and fundamentally enlarged.All of the whispers have been right: Solstad is a vital novelist.Solstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence... Solstad exposes us to ourselves.He's a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that's serious literature.His language sparkles with its new old-fashioned elegance.
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