She wanted him to see her. To alert him. There were no secrets. There were six webcams in their bedroom, another in the living room, three in the kitchen, even one in the bathroom. There was a security camera in the garden and all the other gardens on the street, not to mention four surveillance drones that cruised around the gravel paths, and satellite images on the internet. No longer could one screw behind a locked door, no longer could one shit in private. And why should they want to do that anyway? There was nothing shameful about shitting or screwing.

At an unspecified point in the future, under the watchful eyes of the surveillance state, authors and former spouses Aki and Lenita do everything they can to move on from one another. A novel about seeing everything and being observed everywhere, about man’s uncontrollable curiosity and his need to be noticed, about worthless literature and art, and—most importantly—about the likelihood of difference, about vanity, love, and betrayal. And last, but not least, about the future.

The Transfug Awards as the best Nordic novel in France 2017

“Brief and intense but filled to the brim with ideas and threads that run deep into the heart our times.”
DV DAILY

“A well-plotted, thrilling, riveting novel, written in clear and sophisticated language with an interesting gallery of characters. … Stupidity may be set in the future, but it can also be read as a contemporary dystopia – a novel that itself deceives as it spotlights the deceptions of a surveillance society that the story’s characters and readers alike live with and willingly take part in.”
ASTA KRISTIN BENEDIKTSDOTTIR, HUGRAS.IS

“The more you read, the more vigorous becomes the sardonic narration … and here the writer demonstrates clearly his grasp of narrative technique and brisk rhetorical style, as he describes the bleak world that has replaced the one we know …”
EINAR FALUR INGOLFSSON, MORGUNBLADID

“Stupidity is a polemic about modern society and the pace and narcissism that to a great extent characterises it. What distinguishes Stupidity is that it handles these matters in a sensitive way and without passing judgement on society as such. The narrator’s voice clearly indicates that this need for attention is human and to an extent natural, and the reader is never told to change his ways or how he might behave differently. This adds several layers of interpretative possibilities to the text and brings to the narrative a complicated interplay between characters, society, narrator and readers.
Stupidity is a well-crafted, good and interesting book, and I thoroughly recommend it.”
HILDUR YR ISBERG, SIRKUSTJALDID

“I loved the madness of this book, its originality, rhythm, his imagination, his sense of humor!”
CRYSSILDA CANALBLOG, FRANCE