Description
A spare, chant-like meditation on love and absence, this novel follows Signe as she waits in a room thick with darkness, trying to name what has changed after her husband Asle vanishes. When Asle, walking in the cold, encounters a fire and recognizes Aliss holding her young child Kristoffer, the story opens onto a haunting chain of longing that reaches across generations. With Jon Fosse’s signature ability to move through time in a single breath, the narrative turns grief into a kind of music—repeating, circling, and returning to the same questions about fate, memory, and what remains when people disappear. In its brief compass, it becomes an intimate study of marriage, loss, and the unsettling randomness of life, rendered with lyrical restraint and emotional force.
Available Editions
paperback
Dalkey Archive Press
Published Jan 1, 2010
107 pages
ISBN: 9781564785732
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Translation
From: nor
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