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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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Main Author: Fosse, Jon, 1959-
Other Authors: Searls, Damion.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Norwegian
Published: Champaign, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Norway > Fiction.
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.
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: Jon Fosse is one of Norway's most important contemporary writers, since his 1983 fiction debut he has published prose, poetry and over forty plays. Fosse has been awarded a lifetime stipend by the Norwegian government among countless other accolades, and is one of the most performed living playwrights today. He was the 2023 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.


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