Vaim (Spanish Edition)

LA PRIMERA NOVELA ESCRITA DESPU S DE HABER RECIBIDO EL PREMIO NOBEL

«Un heredero leg timo de Kafka, de Beckett y de Thomas Bernhard, un m stico que provoca adicci n y uno de los grandes escritores vivos. No se lo pierdan .

Javier Cercas A bordo de su barco Eline, Jatgeir llega a Bj rgvin desde Vaim, la peque a ciudad donde vive. Necesita comprar hilo y aguja para coser un bot n, pero en las tiendas le piden un precio exorbitante y es doblemente estafado. Antes de volver a casa con las manos vac as, fondea en una aldea de pescadores para dormir en su barco, pero una voz familiar lo despierta en medio de la noche: es Eline, su gran amor de juventud, que ha dejado a su marido, Frank, y quiere regresar a Vaim con l.

Vaim es la primera novela escrita por Fosse despu s de haber recibido el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2023, y tambi n el primer volumen de un tr ptico sobre la ciudad ficticia de Vaim. Es una novela de amor, muerte y tri ngulos amorosos en continuo movimiento, de barcos pesqueros y de hombres que aceptan las reglas que impone una mujer due a de una fuerte y rara determinaci n.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.

Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread. Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as waves rock the hull. Soon he is awakened by a voice: a woman is calling his name from the quay. There stands Eline, the secret love of his youth--and the namesake of his boat--with a packed suitcase. Eline pleads to come aboard. In what follows, this single encounter reverberates across three stories: three narrators, three deaths.

The first new work from Jon Fosse since he was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, Vaim is a spectral novel that wanders and watches, imbued with things half-seen, perhaps not of this world yet still caught in its rhythms. The first in a trilogy of novels, it continues his investigation into the human condition: the subtle encounters that come to define our lives and our deaths, and what lies in the threshold between what is and what is longed for.