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A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse; Damion Searls (Translator)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Septology Ser.
"WithSeptology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before and--it is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth century--different from what has been written before.Septology feels new."--Wyatt Mason,Harper's Asle is an aging painter and widower who ...Show more
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
$24.99 AUD
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Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asl ...Show more
A Silent Language by Jon Fosse
$14.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2023, translated by Damion Searls.
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 i ...Show more
I Is Another - Septology III-V by Jon Fosse; Damion Searls (Translator)
$35.25 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Septology Ser.
Fosse's portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Reviewi>I is Another follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging ...Show more
Melancholy I-II by Jon Fosse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental b ...Show more
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
$44.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more
Trilogy by Jon Fosse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cul ...Show more
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