Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire
Dalkey Archive, 2010;
republished by Fitzcarraldo, 2022 (their 100th book!)
PEN Center USA Translation Award, 2011
A TLS book of the year, 2022
Fosse’s visionary Scandinavian marriage novel.
“Though it’s true that his books are thoughtful and spare, they are also hopeful in a deeply spiritual way… My advice is to read everything by Fosse, but if the larger Septology seems too intimidating to start with, Aliss at the Fire provides, in capsule form, a worthy introduction.”
— Rónán Hession, The Irish Times
reading/interview
opening lines
Publisher / IndieBound / Amazon
Other Fosse translations
Septology
Morning and Evening
Scenes from a Childhood (stories)
Melancholy I-II (reissue of Part I with a new translation of Part II)