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 da ...