Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [electronic resource]
Fosse, Jon2024
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.
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Fosse, Jon, AuthorSearls, Damion, Editor
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[Place of publication not identified] : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children's books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.
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9781804271223
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English
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5402059
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