19 Best fiction books like A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse

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A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr…

"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want,"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want,"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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1. A Time for Everything

By: James Anderson , Karl Ove Knausgård

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature

2. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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3. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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4. Om udregning af rumfang I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang I'' er første del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i genr… read more

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  • roman
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Nattskolen (Morgenstjernen, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.37

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

Årets roman fra Karl Ove Knausgård, «Nattskolen», inngår i det store Morgenstjernen-verket som åpne… read more

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  • novels
  • roman
  • fiction
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6. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • novels
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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7. Den dagen Nils Vik døde

By: Frode Grytten

4.59

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Over fjorden går han. Over fjorden utan å nøle. Over fjorden som så mange gongar før. Seint og tidl… read more

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  • novels
  • roman
  • fiction
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8. Moral

By: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck

3.49

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Anna anländer till en universitetsstad i Tjeckien för att doktorera i moralfilosofi. Hennes handled… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Min bokvärld

By: Kerstin Ekman

3.72

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Är det dumt att ge sig på tjocka och bra böcker så tidigt i livet att man inte riktigt kan begripa … read more

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10. The Long Form

By: Kate Briggs

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"

-Kate Briggs, The Long Form

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11. Om udregning af rumfang II

By: Solvej Balle

3.96

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang II'' er anden del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele. Tara Selter er ef… read more

Similar categories in Solvej Balle's Om udregning af rumfang II book and Jon Fosse's A New Name: Septology VI-VII

  • roman
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature
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12. Simpatía

By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
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13. Om udregning af rumfang III

By: Solvej Balle

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang III'' er tredje del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i ge… read more

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  • roman
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature
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14. Vikarien

By: David Norlin

3.88

Format: 928 pages, Hardcover

Anna söker en plats i livet där hon är någons förstahandsval, något mer än en tillfällig besökare. … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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15. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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17. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.03

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature
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18. Sniglar och snö

By: Agneta Pleijel

3.86

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Hon blir Sveriges första kvinnliga kulturchef på en dagstidning. På Aftonbladets kulturredaktion i … read more

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  • fiction
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19. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • scandinavian literature
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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20. Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

By: Tore Renberg

3.86

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Sachsen, 1681: Femten år gamle Anna Voigt tiltales for å ha drept sitt nyfødte barn. Blir hun kjent… read more

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  • novels
  • roman
  • fiction
"For å tre inn i Gleditsch' bokhandel. Hyllemeter på hyllemeter med bøker. Himmelen slik den fortoner seg på jorden."

-Tore Renberg, Lungeflyteprøven - forsvar for en ung kvinne som var mistenkt for spedbarnsdrap

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21. Din tid kommer

By: Carl-Johan Vallgren

3.55

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Falkenberg 1993. En okänd flicka hittas död i ett vattendrag i gränstrakterna mellan Halland och Sm… read more

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  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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Moral

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck

3.49

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Kate Briggs

4.09

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4.49

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Niente di vero

Veronica Raimo

3.59

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3.46

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Colin Barrett

3.78

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