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Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls - translator
Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

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.

©2022 Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (P)2024 Dreamscape Media Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Marriage
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I thought it an elegant use of language to describe the landscape and effect of grief.

The landscape of grief

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My first Jon Fosse story, I found it a deeply immersive reflection on grief and loneliness. A story about woman who is stuck in a world of ghosts. It was like living inside her head beside the Norwegian Fjords.

Haunting meditation on grief

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