Erlend Loe, born in Trondheim (Norway) in 1969, has appeared on the stage and worked in film and video production. He has been a critic for the Worker's newspaper, worked in a psychiatric hospital, and been a substitute teacher. He is the author of Naive. Super as well as several books for children.
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the twenty-five-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writ...[SEE MORE]