This unique, fascinating novel is composed of footnotes to a larger work that doesn't exist...Solstad is, as ever, excellent at mingling the personal with the theoretical, embedded in the strange beauty of everyday routine.-- (03/12/2018)
All of the whispers have been right: Solstad is a vital novelist.--Charles Finch (10/22/2018)
Solstad's inventive approach allows him to reflect on the freedom and obligations of the novelist who is tasked with telling someone else's life story. It also inscribes, in the novel's very form, Solstad's way of writing about people who are not quite the protagonists of their own lives...What if a life--even an apparently consequential one, like an ambassador's--had no discernible narrative, no coherent main action? Actual lives look nothing much like conventional novels. That is the challenge Solstad accepts and rigorously joins.-- (10/22/2018)
Since he published his first book of stories in 1965, Dag Solstad has been to Scandinavian literature what Philip Roth has been to American letters or Gu]nter Grass to German writing: an unavoidable voice.-- (10/22/2018)
He's a kind of surrealistic writer--serious literature.--Haruki Murakami (10/22/2018)
His language sparkles with its new old-fashioned elegance, and radiates a unique luster, inimitable and full of e´lan.--Karl Ove Knausgaard (10/22/2018)
Of diplomacy and its discontents: an existentialist-tinged character study by acclaimed Norwegian novelist Solstad.-- (10/22/2018)
The Solstadian long sentence feeds back into itself, meandering with the aimless inevitability of a river heading towards the sea.-- (03/12/2018)
The novel unfolds against every expectation into something memorable and moving.--Michael Autrey (03/12/2018)
Already renowned in Scandinavian literature, Solstad once again brilliantly defies categories, this time in English.--Lanie Tankard (03/12/2018)
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.
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