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  • Professor Andersen's Night

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Agnes Scott Langeland ...
    It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street.Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. The days pass, and he becomes paralysed by indecision. Desperate for respite, the professor sets off to a local sushi bar, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Shyness and Dignity

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as he has done every morning for the past twenty-five years.He is only too familiar with his pupils' hostile attitude both to his lectures and to ... Read more

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  • Novel 11, Book 18

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2017'He’s a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that’s serious literature' Haruki Murakami‘An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer’ James Wood'Without question Norway's bravest, most intelligent novelist' Per Petterson'Dag Solstad serves up another helping of his wan and wise almost-comedy' Geoff Dyer'He d... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • T Singer

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    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 ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Armand V

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Steven T. Murray ...
    New Directions proudly introduces two novels in English by the Norwegian master, who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson)Armand is a diplomat rising through the ranks of the Norwegian foreign office, but he’s caught between his public duty to support foreign wars in the Middle East and his private disdain for Western intervention. He hides behind ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Novel 11, Book 18

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag SolstadBjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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