Name: Aliss at the Fire (in English)
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Author: Jon Fosse
ISBN: 9781564785732

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jon Fosse

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

107

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.28

ISBN

1564785734

ISBN13

9781564785732

Synopsis "Aliss at the Fire (in English)"

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.

Jon Fosse

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Escritor noruego de novelas, poesía, ensayos y libros para niños. Es uno de los dramaturgos más productivos de Europa y sus obras han sido traducidas a más de cuarenta idiomas. Fosse fue nombrado Caballero de la Ordre national du Mérite de Francia en 2007, recibió el Premio Internacional Ibsen en 2010 y es el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023.

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