A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023Trilogy 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 child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisti...

Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative, Jon Fosse delves into Hertervig's mind as the events of one day precipitate his mental breakdown. A student of Hans Gude at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Hertervig is paralyzed by anxieties about his talent and is overcome with love for Helene Winckelmann, his landl...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DE 2025 para o PúblicoTrês personagens e três histórias entrelaçadas pelo amor, pela tragédia e pelo que poderia ser.Eis o surpreendente e sólido regresso de Jon Fosse após a atribuição do Prémio Nobel de Literatura.A bordo do pequeno barco Eline, Jatgeir dirige-se para a cidade mais próxima em busca de agulha e linha, para coser um ou outro botão. Por duas vezes enganado pel...

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, Finalist2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, FinalistNew York TimesEditors’ ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and BookforumWhat makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ...

Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between neighbours escalates to...

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same l...

Romance fundamental de toda a obra literária de Jon Fosse, Casa de Barcos afirmou o autor norueguês como um dos mais importantes da actualidade.Um homem solitário vive com a mãe numa pequena localidade da costa norueguesa. Da vida pouco ou nada fez, apenas tocando guitarra em bailes para ganhar algum dinheiro, lendo livros emprestados da biblioteca local e pescando no fiorde. Uma forte inquietação apodera-se dele quando reencontra Kurt, um amigo de infânci...

PRÉMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2023Um romance sublime, místico e digressivo sobre a vida e a morte escrito numa linguagem verdadeiramente singular e poética.Plano Nacional de LeituraLiteratura - Maiores de 18 anosUm menino está prestes a nascer: chamar-se-á Johannes como o avô e será pescador como o pai. Uma vida boa, é esse o desejo de quem o traz ao mundo, embora este seja um mundo duro, ruim ...

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 life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jo...

El Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023 narra en este maravilloso libro la emocionante y triste historia de Lars Hertervig, un pintor noruego del siglo XIX.Düsseldorf, 1853. El joven artista Lars Hertervig, alumno de Hans Gude en la Academia de Arte de Düsseldorf, está encerrado en su habitación, paralizado por la ansiedad que le provocan las clases de arte y el amor irracional que siente hacia Helene Winckelmann, la hija de su casera. La fijación de Lars por Helene, ma...