PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE UK | Aliss at the Fire

FEATURES:

✅ In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier

✅ standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned.

✅ Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond

✅ the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss.

✅ In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.

✅ Aliss at the Fire, is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.