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    Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
    Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
    Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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    Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    By Jon Fosse and Damion Searls

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    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. Aliss at the Fire, is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFitzcarraldo Editions
    Release dateNov 2, 2022
    ISBN9781804270059
    Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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    Jon Fosse

    Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.

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