Jon Fosse, Vaim
Transit Books / Fitzcarraldo, 2025
Fosse’s first new novel since winning the Nobel Prize, the first in a series of three books set in the fictional small town of Vaim.
★ Starred Review - A Best Book of the Year
“A spectacular story of loneliness, love, and death… It would ruin this endlessly magical and surprising novel to summarize what happens… [one character] sums it all up with understated humor when he considers having his epitaph read, ‘all was strange.’… Indelible turns of phrase… Unforgettable.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“A strange miracle… How can prose that is so simple—cushions are ‘nice,’ work is ‘trusty’—pulse with such feeling? How can it be so littoral, incarnating the light and spray and tidal tempos of these seascapes with such power? And how can a novelist make a reader feel so lost and so found at the same time?” — The Guardian
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Also by Jon Fosse:
Septology
A Shining
Melancholy I-II
Aliss at the Fire
Morning and Evening
Scenes from a Childhood (stories)
A Silent Language (the Nobel Prize lecture)
How It Was (play)