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Vaim
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Series: Vaim, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798893380217
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.
Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread. Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as waves rock the hull. Soon he is awakened by a voice: a woman is calling his name from the quay. There stands Eline, the secret love of his youth--and the namesake of his boat--with a packed suitcase. Eline pleads to come aboard. In what follows, this single encounter reverberates across three stories: three narrators, three deaths.The first new work from Jon Fosse since he was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, Vaim is a spectral novel that wanders and watches, imbued with things half-seen, perhaps not of this world yet still caught in its rhythms. The first in a trilogy of novels, it continues his investigation into the human condition: the subtle encounters that come to define our lives and our deaths, and what lies in the threshold between what is and what is longed for.
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