Aliss at the Fire Canadian Literature Series

Aliss at the Fire Canadian Literature SeriesBy Jon Fosse Translated by Damion Searls ISBN: 9781564785732 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and

this novel questions life’s value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man

"Labyrinthine and multilayered

Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max

and social—of a young man desperate for an authentic experience that is not mediated by social or cultural convention

” —Gary Shteyngart

not to mention the saxophonist and composer John Zorn

Filled with self-reproach and guilt about her son and her life (having yearned to give birth to something "new and rare

very much worth discovering

“Jean Rolin is a companion with whom one can walk as one hears his clear and dispassionate voice

So let us join you

" —Martin Riker

Kirill Kobrin writes fiction and nonfiction prose