Download or read book Aliss at the Fire (Norwegian Literature Series) written by Jon Fosse and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slim, mournful tale of loss and memory in a coastal Norwegian town, first published in Norway in 2003. The novel opens with a series of shifts in perspective, time and identity that hint at the experimentation that follows. We immediately meet Signe, an aging woman living alone near a fjord. The story is set in 2002, but Signe is soon thinking back to 1979 and the day her husband, Asle, died while boating in the waters.