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Aliss at the fire

By Fosse , Jon; Searls , Damion

Book information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
2010
ISBN
1564785734, 978-1-564-78573-2, 978-1-564-78995-2, 1564789950
Language
englishnorwegian
Format
EPUB
Filesize
165 kB (169058 bytes)
Series
Norwegian literature series
Edition
First edition
Pages
107\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. Los

Description

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. "Aliss at the Fire" is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate

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