T Singer

 
　　三十四歲的西恩踏上火車，抵達一處叫做諾托登的小鎮，過著平凡無奇的圖書館員生活，直到他遇見了帶著兩歲女兒伊莎貝拉的梅雷特……。西恩和梅雷特的婚姻維持了幾年，最終離異收場，於是西恩帶著伊莎貝拉搬離諾托登，希望能展開全新的生活，然而，西恩和伊莎貝拉的關係似乎也搖搖欲墜。
 
　　達格．索爾斯塔赤裸裸地呈現我們的寂寞及對存在的訊問，讀來讓人心碎卻不失索爾斯塔式的詼諧。
 
　　「讀完後，讓我們更認識生活，認識自己，認識他人。」---《每日雜誌報》（文 / 博客來編譯）
 
　　‘A kind of surrealist writer’ (Haruki Murakami), who ‘doesn’t write to please other people’ (Lydia Davis). 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).

　　Singer, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of 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 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.

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