Naïve Super (18 page)

Now I’m drinking a sip of water, hoping that life will last. I am also hoping that Paul has written me a reply. Maybe he has told me everything. Then I can relax and let time and space be as they may.

When I get home I’m going to buy a bicycle helmet. And I want to call Lise and tell her that life is a bit like a journey, and that I am maybe, but only maybe, a really good guy.

ERLEND LOE, bornin Trondheim, Norway, in 1969, has appeared on 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.
Naïve. Super
is his first novel published in English; he has also written several books for children.

TOR KETIL SOLBERG, a native of Norway and born in 1971, has been a teacher, photographic reporter and social worker.
Naïve. Super
is his first translated work, soon to be followed by
The Nobel Peace Prize: A Hundred Years for Peace 1901–2001
.

First published in 1996 by
JW Cappelens Forlag, Norway

First published in the UK in 2001 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1TE

This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books

Copyright © Erlend Loe, 1996
Translation copyright © Tor Ketil Solberg, 2000

The moral right of Erlend Loe and Tor Kenil Solberg to be identifed as respectively the author and translator of the work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
on request from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84767 712 9

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