Melancholy II

by Jon Fosse

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564789047
• ISBN13: 9781564789044
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher