Jon Fosse

• Nov-2006
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• Sep-2010
• / Literary
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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...

• Jan-2015
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Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over t...

• Sep-2015
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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 e...

• Dec-2016
• / Literary
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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 ...

• Nov-2017
• / Literary
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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-o...

• May-2018
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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 narr...

• Apr-2020
• / Literary
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURELonglisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize“Fosse’s fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already...

• Mar-2021
• / Psychological Suspense
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"Fosse''s portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.""- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

• Mar-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, FinalistNew York Times Editors’ Choice"With Septology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what ...

• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, Finalist2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, FinalistNew York TimesEditors’ ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorke...

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2023
• / Literary
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WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA 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. B...

• Mar-2024
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023A 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 fath...