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“erlend loe”

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  • Doppler

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best BookA bestseller in Scandinavia -- Doppler is the enchanting, subversive, and very unusual story about one man and his moose.This beguiling modern fable tells the story of a man who, after the death of his father, abandons his home, his family, his career, and the trappings of civilization for a makeshift tent in the woods where he adopts a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Naïve. Super

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Tor Ketil Solberg ...
    Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment.In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lazy Days

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Meet Bror Telemann. 42 years old. Husband to Nina Telemann. Father to Heidi, Berthold and Sabine. Currently: stage director at the Norwegian National Theatre. Soon to be: world-famous playwright and general talking head.Now he's on holiday with his family at the foot of the Alps, south of Munich. That's in Germany. Nina loves Germany. Telemann does not. Telemann loves Nigella Lawson.Ahem... he ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Doppler

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw ...
    Doppler has a nice house, a nice wife and a nice job. But Doppler isn't happy.'Wonderfuly subversive, funny and original' Observer.'A darkly comic fable' Independent.When his father dies, Doppler decides to leave everything behind and start a new life in the forest. There, deep amongst the trees, he reconnects with nature, ponders the meaning of life, and bonds with a baby elk called Bongo.Sweet, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Naïve. Super

    by Erlend Loe ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the twenty-five-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment.In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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