T Singer

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. But Singer unexpectedly falls in love with the ceramicist Merete Saethre, who has a young daughter from a previous relationship. After a few years together, the couple is on the verge of separating, when a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer's life.

The narrator of the novel specifically states that this is not a happy story, yet, as in all of Dag Solstad's works, the prose is marked by an unforgettable combination of humor and darkness. Overall, T Singer marks a departure more explicitly existential than any of Solstad's previous works.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/29/2018
ISBN: 9780811225960
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2018
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2018