by Jon Fosse
This book by a Nobel prize winner is a book I have wanted to read but have been putting off because of it's reputation for being difficult and having no full stops.
I am so glad that I finally got to it. It is the story of Asle, a painter living in the Western part of Norway on the edge of a fjord. He is now in his sixties and over the course of advent he looks back over his life which has all been spent in the same area. He has a neighbour who he sees now and then and they always share an advent meal, and he has a gallery owner who sells his work and puts an annual exhibition at Christmas.
Very little happens but the writing is beautiful-thank you translator Damion Searls- and I felt like I was lowering myself into a nice warm bath every time I picked the book up. It has been my find of the year so far 9/10
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