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Sickle (Hardcover)
May-Brit Akerholt; Ruth Lillegraven
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R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his
father--his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe,
and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts
and waves can still be ours. But Endre is strange, he keeps to
himself, unlike his brothers who are merry and full of joy. He
wants to live in the farm without longing to leave, but he is
struggling. Then he meets Abelone--"the bearer of light." Tall and
thin, always sitting with her books, sharper than all she went to
school with, she is about to be a teacher. They appear to come from
different worlds--one from the ancient, traditional, natural world;
the other from the forward-looking world of modernity, of breaking
away, and of renewal. But there is love--great and immediate. With
new ideas and new languages, Abelone opens up the world of
Endre--whose name means "change." A novel written in lyrical verse,
Ruth Lillegraven's Sickle is an unforgettable evocation of longing
and loss, of dreams and reality, and the importance of language
itself.
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Trilogy (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R453
R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
Save R88 (19%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story
about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this
world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the
rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they
expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological
allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice,
resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas
(Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting,
mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse
received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.
Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le
Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed
'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays - and
those of all great playwrights - grew out of their time, and
influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what
brought their times forward, so do Fosse's plays now. Fosse: Plays
Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright's body of
work for the stage to be published in the English language. The
volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes,
Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea. Rambuku: Two
people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to
understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There
is a sense of otherness in Fosse's work that challenges our notions
of a concept such as 'freedom'. This play questions if freedom, as
we often understand it, is perhaps a prison. Over There: A woman
follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the
way to the top of the mountain? These Eyes: A snapshot of the
dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between
space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An
examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of
children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear.
Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects
in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a
Christmas tree. Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo,
on a ship, disappearing into something unknown.
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The Dead Dogs (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a
house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off
and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead
Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the
direction of their future. Fosse's drama explores life lived in
unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present
and colouring the characters' relationships.
"Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon and
Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two
individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date,
mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history
they cannot ignore. In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a
strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association
they try to decipher their predicament. In Afternoon, characters
come and go in a flat that is for sale; they will never understand
each other; someone will always insist on one thing, while others
will insist on something else. In Beautiful, the past disrupts the
present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley.
Conflicts simmer when husband and wife punish each other by
courting his best friend, while his daughter meets a local boy.
Death Variations explores different aspects of the theme of death;
death of love, death of relationship, death of happiness, and
finally the death of a young person. As the characters in Fosse's
plays search for meaning or even just familiarity in their ruptured
lives, their struggles find an echo in the rhythms and repetitions
of their speech."
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Fosse: Plays Four (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Louis Muinzer, May-Brit Akerholt, Ann Henning Jocelyn
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R711
Discovery Miles 7 110
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and
Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black. In And
We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique
potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her
husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost
story? The Son concerns an ageing and isolated couple, whose
long-absent son has a score to settle with their meddlesome
neighbour. In the oblique but psychologically penetrating Visits, a
withdrawn teenager, apparently upset by the attentions of her
mother's boyfriend, turns to her brother for help. The short play
Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black,
exploring the dilemmas of an errant husband, his young lover and
his family, displays Fosse's characteristic compression of
theatrical time and space at its most concentrated."
In the hospital, being treated for cervical cancer, Mia meditates
on her life, her ex-girlfriend, and the state of her sanity. This
heartbreaking autobiographical novel dramatizes the brutality of
disease and its effects on both mind and body. Ultimately, Let Me
Sleep Until It Is Just a Dream is an examination-as Kjersti
Annesdatter Skomsvold writes-of what a person is when "all she has
left is language." Stifoss-Hanssen's debut is a powerful piece of
work, whose images and insights will remain in the mind for a long
time.
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