T Singer

Singer, a thirty-four year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in 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, the relationship starts to falter but, just after the two decide to part, an accident happens that will be of crucial importance for the rest of Singer's life.

T Singer>/i> is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about indomitable loneliness, laying bare the existential questions of life, in Solstad's classic, bleakly comic style.