Wakefulness

Jon Fosse · 2007 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

On a winter night in Bjørgvin, two teenagers, the girl pregnant, go from door to door looking for a place to sleep. The prose is spare, repetitive and rhythmic, nearly a long incantation. The first part of Fosse's Trilogy, which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the whole in 2015.

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