ARGONAUT BOOKS

Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. Reviews 'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.' - Le Monde'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle'Jon Fosse is less well-known in America than some other Norwegian novelists, but revered in Norway - winner of every prize, a leading Nobel contender. I think of the four elder statesmen of Norwegian letters as a bit like the Beatle...Read More