Naïve. Super

Name: Naïve. Super
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Erlend Loe
ISBN: 9781515945666

Author: Erlend Loe, Tor Ketil Solberg

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2019

Categories: Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical

Synopsis

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 writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door.

He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.

About Erlend Loe

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug on May 02, 2019

4.5, rounded up. I first heard of this slim, quick read as it was listed as one of the top ten books favored by current US Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg - and that he had actually learned Norwegian in order to read it in the original language! I figured something that had impelled that kind o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on January 24, 2013

Naive Super is probably the most influential book I've read in terms of my own writing. This is a brave book. Dialogue is just discarded for the most part. The unnamed narrator is almost anti-protagonist. He is a nice guy. There aren't many books purely about nice guys. There are, however, countless......more