Vaim

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjorgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to 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 Fosse's 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 an incredibly determined woman. And all, of course, was strange...

Product details

• Authors: Jon Fosse
• Assisted by: Damion Searls (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781804271827
• ISBN: 978-1-80427-182-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)