Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Self-Control

Self-Control

Kinsella, Seán
Sæterbakken, Stig

Paperback

Series: S Trilogy

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1628976535
ISBN13: 9781628976533
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The second volume in Stig S terbakken's loosely connected S Trilogy, Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression.


A middle-aged man, Andreas Feldt, feeling that he is unable to communicate with his adult daughter over the course of lunch, announces on an inexplicable whim that he is going to get a divorce. This impulsive lie does not only destroy Andreas' conversation with his daughter, but also puts doubt in his own mind about his own existence, shaped by routine and the people around him. Faced with this virtual invisibility--no matter what actions he takes, the world seems to take no notice--Andreas is cut adrift from the certainties of his life and forced to navigate through a society where it seems everyone is only one loss of self-control away from an explosion of dissatisfaction and rage.

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All