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A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Shining by Jon Fosse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the ma ...Show more
A Shining by Jon Fosse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man get ...Show more
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
Aliss at the Fire - WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Jon Fosse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde). 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 ...Show more
Best European Fiction 2016 by Jon (FRW) Fosse
$29.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best European Fiction
Boathouse by Jon Fosse; May-Brit Akerholt (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Norwegian Literature Ser.
One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent ...Show more
I Is Another : Septology III-V by Jon Fosse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this second instalment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, the two Asles meet for the first time. They look strangely alike, dress identically, and both want to be painte ...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
Melancholy I-II by Jon Fosse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, whopainted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illnessand died poor in 1902. Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous lan ...Show more
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse (translated by Damion Searls)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Norwegian Literature Ser.
A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon ...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