Books like 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.
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The Other Name: Septology I-II
An ageing Norwegian painter reflects on his life, art, and faith in single unbroken sentences across seven books; the first two arrive here.
A Shining
A man drives aimlessly until his car gets stuck on a forest track, walks into the snow and the dark to find help, and sees a shining presence among the trees.
Knulp
Three episodes in the life of Knulp, a charming vagabond who drifts from town to town in the German countryside, welcome everywhere and settled nowhere.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
The Emperor of Portugallia
Jan, a poor crofter in Värmland, adores his daughter Klara Gulla, and when she leaves for Stockholm to pay off the family's debt and doesn't come back, his mind slips into the belief that she is an empress.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.
Synnøve Solbakken
In a Norwegian mountain valley, Thorbjørn, a quarrelsome farmer's son, loves Synnøve, the gentle girl of the neighbouring farm, but her pious parents won't hear of a match until he learns to master his temper.
The Summer Book
A six-year-old girl and her elderly grandmother spend a summer exploring a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, in vignettes about grief and companionship.
The Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties, both writers, rent a cottage in the grounds of an old Tokyo house, and a neighbour's cat named Chibi begins visiting, and then staying.
The White Book
A Korean writer living in Warsaw meditates on white things, snow, swaddling cloth, salt, blank pages, as a way to grieve the sister her mother lost two hours after birth.
The True Deceiver
In a snowbound coastal village, a calculating young woman sets out to win the trust and money of a reclusive children's book illustrator, and each woman ends up changing the other.
Salka Valka
Salka Valka arrives as a little girl with her destitute mother in an Icelandic fishing village, where she grows up tough, poor and in thrall to the merchant who owns everything.