Vaim - Jon Fosse Translator: Eric Ozawa

Translator: Eric Ozawa

is pulled back into her nation’s fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman who is a doppelgänger of Bárbara

examines the complex relations between money

Hidden in Jimbocho

with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry

Vaim - Jon Fosse Translator: Eric OzawaJatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjrgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing. Vaim, Jon