T Singer

Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize.Singer, a thirty-four year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in 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, the relationship starts to falter but, just after the two decide to part, an accident happens that will be of crucial importance for the rest of Singer’s life.T Singer is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about indomitable loneliness, laying bare the existential questions of life, in Solstad’s classic, bleakly comic style.