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  • Professor Andersen's Night

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Agnes Scott Langeland ...
    A 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)In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out the window and sees a man strangle a ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • 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

    $12.39 USD

  • T Singer

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally ...
    “Solstad doesn’t write to please other people. Do exactly what you want, that’s my idea...the drama exists in his voice” (Lydia Davis)T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway. There he plans to begin a deliberately anonymous life as a librarian ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Shyness and Dignity

    by Dag Solstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    **An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrationsIn front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of The Wild Duck*. He was once more struck by their hostile attitude toward him. But it couldn't be helped, he had ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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