{"product_id":"professor-andersens-night-9780811228305","title":"Professor Andersen's Night","description":"In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Failing to report the crime, he becomes paralyzed by his indecision. \u003cem\u003eProfessor Andersen's Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an unsettling yet highly entertaining novel, written in Dag Solstad's signature concise, dark, and witty prose. \"He's a kind of surrealistic writer, of very strange novels,\" Haruki Murakami wrote. \"I think he is serious literature\".\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\u003eLangeland, Agnes Scott:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAgnes Scott Langeland\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Scotland and moved to Norway in 1971. Previous translations include poems by Rune Christiansen in \u003cem\u003eThe Edinburgh Review\u003c\/em\u003e and Petter Mejlander's book \u003cem\u003ePushwagner\u003c\/em\u003e (Magikon, 2008).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544084058386,"sku":"9780811228305","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_803dcdd9-e7ff-45ed-8a27-75f3405b407e.jpg?v=1731520251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/professor-andersens-night-9780811228305","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}