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In Translation Book Club - Trilogy

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

In Translation will be meeting February 22nd at 7 pm. We will be reading Trilogy by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt.

About the book:

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015.