Beatles

Beatles is a novel by the Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, published in 1984 and winner of the Cappelen Prize. Every chapter is named after a Beatles song or album. It follows four Oslo boys from 1965 to 1972, through adolescence and early adulthood, who worship the band and take the names John, Paul, George and Ringo. Don Bartlett’s English translation appeared in 2001, and the Arcadia Books edition runs to 540 pages.