Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse

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A selection of stories by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

A selection of stories by the celebrated Norwegian author, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ep 3/5 Herding sheep on the mountain with grandmother & reading Karl Marx.

A selection of connected short stories by the celebrated Norwegian author Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature - “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. Minimalist and compelling, these pared-back vignettes take us from infancy to awkward adolescence, skirting the line between fiction and autobiography. Episodes one to three draw stories from the titular story sequence 'Scenes from a Childhood'; episodes four and five are taken from the story 'Little Sister'.

'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' - Le Monde

‘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.’ - New York Times

Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Read by John Mackay
Produced by Mary Ward-Lowery and Mair Bosworth
Mixed by Ilse Lademann

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The latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated writers.

The latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated writers, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. Translated by Damion Searls.

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