Novel 11, Book 18
By Dag Solstad
Translated by Sverre Lyngstad
Harvill Secker £15.99, 218 pages
FT Bookshop price: £12.79

Most midlife crises involve a pair of leather trousers, a younger, blonder partner or – if budget allows – a red Ferrari. The protagonist of leading Norwegian author Dag Solstad’s new novel opts for something a little more radical. He decides that he will become disabled.