Professor Andersen's Night

Informationen zum Autor Dag Solstad is one of Norway's leading contemporary authors. His work has consistently won critical acclaim and he is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. All three of his novels available in English have been listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Shyness and Dignity was shortlisted in 2007 and Novel 11, Book 18 and Professor Andersen's Night were longlisted for the 2009 and 2012 prizes respectively. Klappentext "It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. The days pass, and he becomes paralysed by indecision. Desperate for respite, the professor sets off to a local sushi bar, only to find himself face to face with the murderer..."--P. [4] of cover. Zusammenfassung It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room.

Product details

• Authors: Dag Solstad, Dag Solstad, Solstad Dag
• Assisted by: Agnes Scott Langeland (Translation), Langeland Agnes Scott (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780099578420
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957842-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Norwegische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Norway, Fiction in translation