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Can I read The Other Name on EtoBox?
The Other Name by Jon Fosse is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Other Name about?
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into the past, make for a relentlessly consuming work: already Septology feels momentous."—The GuardianThe Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.Written in hypnotic prose that shifts between the first and third person, The Other Name calls into...
Who reads The Other Name?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jon Fosse
- Publisher
- Transit Books
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction