Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Details
A bedridden woman with a fever recalls four people who shaped her life, turning each encounter over in compact, precise portraits.
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.
How to Be Both
Two linked stories, of a Renaissance painter in Ferrara and of a grieving teenage girl in present-day Cambridge, can be read in either order, and both ask how we see and who we become.
Cat's Eye
A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
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.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.