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Trilogy (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R420
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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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.
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Sickle (Hardcover)
May-Brit Akerholt; Ruth Lillegraven
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R460
Discovery Miles 4 600
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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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The Dead Dogs (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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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.
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Boathouse (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by May-Brit Akerholt
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R407
R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
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One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from
the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely
hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost
childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a
stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of
a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a
love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.
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Fosse: Plays Four (Paperback)
Jon Fosse; Translated by Louis Muinzer, May-Brit Akerholt, Ann Henning Jocelyn
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R851
Discovery Miles 8 510
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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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