Winning upon its Norwegian release the Norwegian Critics Prize, this novel follows the journey of a recently trained librarian hoping for an anonymous life proceeding to have a relationship with a ceramicist, and go through a life-changing accident as the relationship starts to falter. |b 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