Aliss at the Fire Canadian Literature Series Hopeful Monsters tells the story

Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max

this novel questions life’s value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man

and social—of a young man desperate for an authentic experience that is not mediated by social or cultural convention

"Labyrinthine and multilayered

Aliss at the Fire Canadian Literature Series Hopeful Monsters tells the storyBy Jon Fosse Translated by Damion Searls ISBN: 9781564785732 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and