{"product_id":"novel-11-book-18-9780811228268","title":"Novel 11, Book 18","description":"Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever.\u003cbr\u003e He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he's tangled up in a game or reality.\u003cbr\u003e Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for \u003cem\u003eNovel 11, Book 18\u003c\/em\u003e, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author's remarkable gifts and wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolstad, Dag:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDag Solstad\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1941) has written nearly thirty books, including \u003cem\u003eArmand V\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eT Singer\u003c\/em\u003e (both available from New Directions). Admired worldwide by writers as diverse as Lydia Davis, Geoff Dyer, and Peter Handke, Solstad has won the 2006 Brage Prize, the 1989 Nordic Council's Prize for Literature, and the Norwegian Critic's Prize in 1969, 1992, and 1999.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyngstad, Sverre:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSverre Lyngstad\u003c\/strong\u003e (1922-2011) was a scholar and translator, perhaps best known for translating and popularizing the works of Knut Hamsun.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495182766354,"sku":"9780811228268","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91f396cc-389b-4d64-8e96-2821d4d262c6.jpg?v=1730673643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/novel-11-book-18-9780811228268","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}