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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the chi... Read More about Trilogy (Dalkey Archive Essentials)

Icy, intricate, and unflinching, Edy Poppy's Coming. Apart. captures the zeniths and nadirs of the human experience. With the stark, poetic voice that garnered her collection Anatomy. Monotony. cult status in Norway and abroad, the writer-performance artist offers a vision of sexuality and alienatio... Read More about Coming. Apart. (Norwegian Literature)

Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore. In Sleep My ... Read More about Fosse: Plays Three: Mother and Child; Sleep My Baby Sleep; Afternoon; Beautiful; Death Variations (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays -- and those of all great playwrights -- grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, a... Read More about Fosse: Plays Six: Rambuku; Freedom; Over There, These Eyes; Girl in Yellow Raincoat; Christmas Tree Song; Sea (Oberon Modern Playwrights)

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse's... Read More about The Dead Dogs (Oberon Modern Plays)

What is fidelity? In Anatomy. Monotony., Edy Poppy examines this question with an intimacy and ruthlessness worthy of Marguerite Duras. V r, a young woman from a small Norwegian town, and Lou, a Frenchman from N mes, maintain an open marriage. But their polyamorous experiment is freighted with jealo... Read More about Anatomy. Monotony. (Norwegian Literature)