Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
A New Name cover art

A New Name

By: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls - translator
Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £13.00

Buy Now for £13.00

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

I'm Not Stiller cover art
Light in August cover art
Snow Country cover art
Hunger cover art
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea cover art
Beware of Pity cover art
Moon Palace cover art
The Man Without Qualities cover art

Summary

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers-two 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 Fosse's Septology, "a major work of Scandinavian fiction" (Hari Kunzru) and an exquisite metaphysical novel about love, art, God, friendship, and the passage of time.

©2019 Jon Fosse; Translation copyright 2021 by Damion Searls (P)2023 Tantor

What listeners say about A New Name

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.