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Boathouse

Jon Fosse author May-Brit Akerholt translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:29th Oct '17

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One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.


“Fosse . . . has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.

* The New York Tim

ISBN: 9781628971828

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

144 pages