Vaim by Fosse, Jon

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Author: Fosse, JonModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 23 October 2025 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 120 pages197 x 129 x 14 | 168g
Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjrgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. Heintendsto buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing.Vaim, Jon Fosses first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the story of this triangle, a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and anincrediblydetermined woman. And all, of course, was strange