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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