Vaim - Jon Fosse is pulled back into her

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

’ In 1934

Translator: Eric Ozawa

Hidden in Jimbocho

with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry

Vaim - Jon Fosse is pulled back into herJatgeir 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