A New Name Audiobook

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway His only friends are his neighbor sleik a traditional fishermanfarmer and Beyer a gallerist who lives in the city There in Bjrgvin lives another Asle also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol Asle and Asle are doppelgngerstwo versions of the same person two versions of the same life Written in melodious and hypnotic slow prose A New Name is the final installment of Jon Fosses Septology a major work of Scandinavian fiction Hari Kunzru and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love art God friendship and the passage of time