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Book SynopsisA dark and moving examination of one man’s derailed life, by the Norwegian master who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson)
Trade Review"With sublime restraint and subtle modulation, Solstad conveys an entire age of sorrow and loss." -- Publishers Weekly
"There’s an undeniable beauty in the way he raises tedious self-reflexivity to the level of music." -- Wilson McBee - Southwest Review
"I find him an utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer." -- James Wood - The New Yorker
"His language sparkles with its new old-fashioned elegance and radiates a unique luster, inimitable and full of elan." -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
"Solstad, regarded by Norwegians as arguably their finest and surely their most critically praised and influential contemporary novelist, pairs his deep political engagement with an ever-renewed formal invention. With each new novel, he startles us, his readers, yet again with something unexpected. I find him, with his spirited intelligence, a delight and an inspiration to read, whether (haltingly!) in Norwegian or, over the past few years, happily, gratefully, in English translation." -- Lydia Davis
