Aliss at the Fire

by Jon Fosse

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564785734
• ISBN13: 9781564785732
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 6.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher