Novel 11, Book 18
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He had always believed that life was dominated by opportunities until he was frightened by them. One morning at the end of August, tax collector Bjorn Hansen stood at the train station in the small town of Kongsberg, waiting for his son. He is fifty years old this year, and it has been four years since he left Tiride Lammers, the woman who was the reason why he decided to pursue "stolen happiness" eighteen years ago, abandoning his wife and two-year-old son and moving to Kongsberg from Oslo. Over time, the relationship eventually withers and dies. His son, whom he had not seen for many years, moved to live with him because he was studying at university. The shortcomings in the past seemed to have been repaired, but Bjorn Hansen was still not satisfied. To rebel against the futility of life, he devises a bold plan to make his word "NO" come true. Novel 11, Book 18 is a truly existential novel that presents all of Solstadt's fundamental themes in an uncompromising way. "A novel that shows the impossibility of life without a trace of humor, neither black nor any other kind of humor." Considered one of his most important books.
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