Aliss at the fire
Slim, mournful tale of loss and memory in a coastal Norwegian town, first published in Norway in 2003. The novel opens with a series of shifts in perspective, time and identity that hint at the experimentation that follows. We immediately meet Signe, an aging woman living alone near a fjord. The sto...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Norwegian |
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Champaign, IL :
Dalkey Archive Press,
2010.
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| Summary: | Slim, mournful tale of loss and memory in a coastal Norwegian town, first published in Norway in 2003. The novel opens with a series of shifts in perspective, time and identity that hint at the experimentation that follows. We immediately meet Signe, an aging woman living alone near a fjord. The story is set in 2002, but Signe is soon thinking back to 1979 and the day her husband, Asle, died while boating in the waters. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Norwegian as Det er Ales by Det Norske Samlaget, 2004"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 107 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781564785732 1564785734 |
| Author Notes: | Damion Searls is a writer in English and translator of German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. His translations include work by Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf; his translation of Hans Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Fiction. |
