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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench & 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 & never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, & beyond: the bonds of family & 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, & 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 & loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage & human fate.Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway & is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway & abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, & over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed & translations into fifty languages. Septology, his latest prose work,

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Author

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (translation)

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564785732

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychology

Rating

3.73 / 5 (132 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14