Bøker av Dag Solstad

T Singer is the new novel in English from one of Norway's most celebrated writers, proving `good literature makes us wiser about life, ourselves and other people' (Dagbladet). 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.

Do exactly what you want, that's my idea...the drama exists in his voice' Lydia DavisArmand 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 of Western intervention.

De siste par årene har mange av oss jobbet mye hjemmefra, noe som har brakt med seg brå og omfattende endringer i hverdagsliv og arbeidsrutiner. Men det er én yrkesgruppe som i liten grad har latt seg affisere av denne unntakstilstanden; nemlig forfatterne. For dem er hjemmekontortilværelsen den normale, da kun et fåtall av dem lever opp til den romantiske forestillingen om den rotløse bohemen som bærer med seg sine skriveredskaper og dikter overalt.I denne boken åpner flere av våre fremste forfattere døren til sitt hjemmekontor, hvorfra de øser av sin erfaring med en arbeidssituasjon som kom brått og uventet på oss andre. Boken er redigert av Lars Saabye Christensen, og inneholder bidrag fra Vigdis Hjorth, Dag Solstad, Agnes Ravatn, Kjartan Fløgstad, Olaug Nilssen, Jan Kjærstad, Selma Lønning Aarø, Cecilie Enger og Thorvald Steen.

Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent.

This urge to gamble with his comfortable existence becomes irresistible, taking Bjorn to Vilnius, Lithuania, with Dr Schiotz his fellow conspirator, where he cannot tell whether he's tangled up in a game or an absurd new reality.

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 knowing, ironic statements, which no one grasps and which change nothing. Armand's son joins the Norwegian SAS to fight in the Middle East, despite being specifically warned against such a move by his father, and this leads to catastrophic, heartbreaking consequences.Told exclusively in footnotes to an unwritten book, this is Solstad's radically unconventional novel about how we experience the passing of time: how it fragments, drifts, quickens, and how single moments can define a life.

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room.