The new novel in English from one of Norway's most celebrated writers
`A kind of surrealistic writer... Serious literature' Haruki Murakami
`Mad, sad and funny... Thrilling' Geoff Dyer
`The drama exists in his voice' Lydia Davis
`An utterly hypnotic writer' James Wood
Singer, 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...
Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize