Boathouse [Paperback]

One of Jon Fosse???s most acclaimed novels,Boathouseis told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel,Boathouseslowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.AWARDS:
John Fosse has been awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (the Booker of Scandinavia) and the Norwegian Ibsen Prize, among others:
1998 Nynorsk Literature Prize 1997 Aschehoug Prize
1999 Dobloug Prize 2003 Norsk kulturr??ds ??respris
2003 Nynorsk Literature Prize 2003 Chevalier of the Ordre national du M??rite of France (2003)
2005 Brage Prize 2005 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
2007 The Swedish Academy Nordic Prize
2007 The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs' Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
2010 The Ibsen Award 2014 European Prize for Literature
2015 Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
Fosse???s pared down, circuitous, and rhythmic prose skillfully guides readers through past and present. ???Fosse . . . has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.??? He is undoubtedly one of the world???s most important and versatile literary voices. Norway's biggest cultural export The Beckett of the 21st Century. There is something quietly dramatic about Fosse's meandering and rhythmic prose . . . which has a strangely mesmerising effect. Fosse been shortlisted by oddsmakers for the Nobel Prize several years in a row: It isn't every playwright who gets a hotel suite named after them, particularly when they're still breathing. But Fosse is no ordinary playwright. One of Norway's most famous writers, he is alóå