New Name: Septology VI-VII

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, FinalistNew York TimesEditors ChoiceWithSeptology, Fosse has found a new approach to writing fiction, different from what he has written before andit is strange to say, as the novel enters its fifth centurydifferent from what has been written before.Septologyfeels new.WYATT MASON,HARPERSAsle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjrgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangerstwo versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. Written in melodious and hypnotic slow prose,A New Nameis the final installment of Jon FossesSeptology, a major work of Scandinavian fiction (Hari Kunzru) and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.