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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 one family and their 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 haunting exploration of love, ranking among the greatest meditations on marriage and loss.
Winner of the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation
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Brent M Rothchild
reviewed Aliss at the Fire on December 01, 2014
Aliss at the Fire
It's an old house, yes, it's an old house.
darkness, bleak, black, have you seen the fire?
the purples, the reds, the yellows out in the fjord?
who is this in my mind? is it me? is it Alse?
let me live vicariously through you, let me be within your being,
let me think, let me see, let me roam, let me live, let me die.
november, it snows, the pale white snow.
peering out of the window I see him. I see them.
it's been 20 years. why do I still see him? why hasn't he come back?
Signe, get up, you are alive.
old Aliss is out there: motherly, grandmotherly, great-grandmotherly.
they walk, they scream, they are immortal,
the fire burns as the dead live again.
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