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Vaim / Jon Fosse ; translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls.
Van Pelt Library PT9069.F685 V3513 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Fosse Vaim
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fosse, Jon, 1959- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Vaim. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian (Nynorsk)
- Subjects (All):
- Fishing villages--Fiction.
- Fishing villages.
- Norway--Fiction.
- Norway.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Transit Books, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Norwegian.
- Summary:
- Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village. Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread. Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as waves rock the hull. Soon he is awakened by a voice: a woman is calling his name from the quay. There stands Eline, the secret love of his youth--and the namesake of his boat--with a packed suitcase. Eline pleads to come aboard. In what follows, this single encounter reverberates across three stories: three narrators, three deaths.
- Notes:
- Originally published in New Norwegian as Vaim by Det Norske Samlaget in 2025.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9798893380217
- OCLC:
- 1499568118
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