Self-Control by Stig Saeterbakken

Self-Control

Stig Saeterbakken

Surreal, disturbing, occasionally amusing first person account of a male mid-life crisis. Go with the flow by all means but expect to have all your preconceptions overturned by the end of this most unusual novel.

Extract
My superior ... just sat idly for hours on end in an overheated office in front of a computer he barely knew how to turn on and off .... What real power did he have over me when it came down to it?
Parallels
  • The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
  • The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
  • Melancholia - the film