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Morning and Evening

Jon Fosse · 2000 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

A Norwegian fisherman is born on one day and, in the second part, dies on another, in short unpunctuated lines of ordinary life. Fosse's shortest novel, written in Nynorsk, is the usual entry to his prose.

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