ALISS AT THE FIRE - WINNER OF THE 2023 N

From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature a haunting masterpiece exploring love loss and human fate.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.