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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 30/05/2019
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ISBN: 9781784703066
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £9.99
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 Dyer
Singer, 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
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 30/05/2019
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ISBN: 9781784703066
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 219g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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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."
Geoff Dyer, Observer
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"All of the whispers have been right: Solstad is a vital novelist."
Charles Finch, New York Times
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"Solstad is expert in delineating the absurdities of existence… Solstad exposes us to ourselves."
David Mills, Sunday Times
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"He’s a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that’s serious literature."
Haruki Murakami
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"His language sparkles with its new old-fashioned elegance."
Karl Ove Knausgaard
