A New Name
β Scribed by Jon Fosse
- Book ID
- 115336738
- Publisher
- Transit Books
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781945492594
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors' Choice
"With Septology , 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,HARPERS
Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, AΜsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in BjΓΈrgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgaΜngers--two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. Written in melodious and hypnotic "slow prose," _A New...
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