The Other Name: Septology I-II

Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Translator)

$17.95

Publication Date: April 4th, 2020

Publisher:

Transit Books

ISBN:

9781945492402

Pages:

340

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Description

The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer's Septology.

About the Author

Jon Fosse is one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, and was awared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children's books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.