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A New Name
- Author
- Jon Fosse
- Narrator
- Kyle Snyder
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 26 December 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Jon Fosse
- Narrator
- Kyle Snyder
- Duration
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 December 2023
- ISBN
- 9798855525564
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
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" (Hari Kunzru) and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.
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