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A signed & numbered exclusive hardback limited-edition of this collected trilogy edition from multi-award winning Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse; this gathers all 3 parts of his acclaimed 'Septology' series. The conclusion 'A New Name ' was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize; the first part of the series, 'The Other Name ' was longlisted for the same Prize in 2020.

** After years of being mentioned as a strong candidate, on 5 October 2023, Mr Fosse was named as the Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the 4th Norwegian to have won the prize but the first for almost a century, since Sigrid Undset won in 1928. **

'Septology ', published in this signed limited-edition in October 2024 by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 1st edition / 1st printing thus (the individual parts were published between 2019 & 2021 and the collected edition first appeared in paperback in 2022), standard modern hardback, the original collected edition had 825 pages. Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls.

This will be hand signed by Jon Fosse to a hand numbered official publisher bookplate which will be affixed to the marbled front endpaper.

In New unread condition, still sealed within the publisher sellophane. A special numbered limited-edition run of only 1000 copies. As still sealed, I am unable to show any internal imagery or advise of the individual number of this copy.

Bound in fine blue cloth with white lettering (in keeping with the colour scheme for all Fitzcarraldo's fiction titles, which have only been released in paperback until now). No dustjacket as issued but the book has a large wraparound/belly band in place. Marbled finish to all sides of the text block. This release is part of a special cloth-bound small series of selected titles produced by the publisher to celebrate their 10th anniversary.

NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER - 2023

What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another?

Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city.

There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness.

Jon Fosse’s Septology is a transcendent exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

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