Book description
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor PÃ¥l 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.
Professor Andersen's Night is an unsettling yet highly
entertaining novel of apathy, rebellion and morality. In flinty prose,
Solstad presents an uncomfortable question: would we, like his
cerebral protagonist, do nothing?
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.
