Description
Two Asles—bound by memory, friendship, and the long echo of love—move through youth and early adulthood as their lives unfold in luminous, hypnotic fragments. In a world where conversation and performance can feel like masks, the novel turns toward art and Catholic faith, asking what it means to seek God, to find the self, and to endure the passage of time. Asle’s attempts to paint become a kind of inward prayer, an effort to reach an “innermost picture” where soul and body meet. Written in Jon Fosse’s celebrated slow, musical prose, this Beckett-inspired metaphysical work—co-translated by Damion Searls—offers a quiet, soul-cleansing meditation on connection, longing, and the fragile hope that our clumsy gestures matter.
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paperback
Transit Books
Published Mar 2, 2021
330 pages
ISBN: 9781945492457
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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