From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate.
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle’s great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse’s vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.
Author: Jon Fosse
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 09/16/2010
Series: Norwegian Literature
Pages: 107
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781564785732
Language: English
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