Quiet Days in Mixus

For the first time in Russian—a brand-new novel by today’s most popular Norwegian writer, author of bestsellers such as “Naive. Super,” “Under the Influence of a Woman,” “The Best Country in the World,” “U,” “Doppler,” and “Volvo Trucks,” “Tales of Kurt,” and “Muley.” This book is just as human, just as unmistakably naive—and yet just as difficult—as the mega-hit “Naive. Super.” It begins with exchanging emails through an electronic translator and ends with the admission that marital infidelity is also theatre. And in between: the Alpine village of Garmisch-Partenkirchen becomes “Small Church Displacements,” singer Kate Bush and TV star Nigel Lawson do striptease in the kitchen, a young Russian tennis player denies she’s the daughter of a Gazprom oligarch, and the hotel owner eats eggs only from hens that have seen snow in the mountains…