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Asle, an ageing painter on the west coast of Norway, goes back over his youth and the beginnings of his art in the middle part of Fosse's novel in one long sentence.
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The Details
A bedridden woman with a fever recalls four people who shaped her life, turning each encounter over in compact, precise portraits.
Morning and Evening
The birth of Johannes, a fisherman's son on the Norwegian coast, and, many years later, a day near the end of his life.
Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
The Enigma of Arrival
A writer from Trinidad settles in a cottage on a run-down estate in Wiltshire and watches the landscape and its people change over the years.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
Aliss at the Fire
In 2002, Signe lies on a bench in an old house by a fjord, remembering the November day in 1979 when her husband Asle rowed out onto the water and did not come back.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
The Stolen Bicycle
A Taiwanese novelist whose father vanished with his bicycle twenty years ago goes looking for that bicycle among collectors, and finds stories of the war, of Taiwan's colonial past and of elephants in Burma.
Home
Glory Boughton, thirty-eight, has come home to Gilead, Iowa, to care for her dying father, the old minister, when her brother Jack, the family's prodigal, comes back after twenty years.
Cat's Eye
A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgård, a Norwegian writer, remembers his teenage years under a cold and frightening father, then the days he and his brother spent clearing the house where their father drank himself to death.