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- Philosophical novels with doppelgängers and mirrored lives
- Slow, meditative prose that lingers on art and solitude
- Stories set on Norway’s remote coastlines
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist | 2022 National Book Award, Finalist
Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, 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 life.
Written in melodious and hypnotic “slow prose,” A New Name is the final installment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, “a major work of Scandinavian fiction” and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.
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