Vaim - Jon Fosse

By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse,\n Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.\n Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread.\n Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as waves rock the hull. Soon he is awakened by a a woman is calling his name from the quay.\n There stands Eline, the secret love of his youth—and the namesake of his boat—with a packed suitcase. Eline pleads to come aboard.\n In what follows, this single encounter reverberates across three three narrators, three deaths.\n The first new work from Jon Fosse since he was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature,\n Vaim is a spectral novel that wanders and watches, imbued with things half-seen,\n perhaps not of th