Description
Spanning the threshold between birth and death, this luminous novella follows Johannes as his earliest moments arrive in a rush of memory and dread, while his father, Olai, is drawn into a continuous, incantatory meditation on God, Satan, and what it truly means for life to have substance. In Fosse’s signature, hallucinatory prose, ordinary gestures—waiting, listening, preparing warmth—become charged with metaphysical weight as the story moves from the hospital’s first breath to the day just before an ending. Through a single, unbroken current of introspection, the book explores mortality, faith, and the strange tenderness of being alive, even when the future feels bleak. With its hypnotic rhythm and spare intensity, it reads like a prayer and a reckoning at once.
Available Editions
paperback
Dalkey Archive Press
Published Jan 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781628971088
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Translation
From: nor
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