Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse · 2004 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

A woman at a fjord window recalls the husband who vanished in a boat in 1979 and the earlier Aliss of the nineteenth century, so that the generations of a Norwegian family run together. Fosse sets the whole in a single unpunctuated flow of repeating phrases.

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