New Name - Septology VI-VII (Fosse Jon)(Paperback / softback)

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, sleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgngers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final instalment of Jon Fosse's Septology, the major prose work by 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde), Christmas is approaching. Tradition has it that sleik and Asle eat lutefisk together, but this year Asle has agreed for the first time to celebrate Christmas with sleik and his sister, Guro. On Christmas Eve, sleik, Asle, and the dog Bragi take sleik's boat out on the Sygnefjord. Meanwhile, we follow the
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