Jon Fosse is a renowned Norwegian writer and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 2023 "for innovative plays and prose that voice the inexpressible," recipient of the Nordic Council Prize and the theatrical equivalent of the Nobel Prize — the International Ibsen Award, nominee for the International Booker Prize in 2020 and 2022. "For my plays, it is better when the emotions of the characters are sealed under a tight lid — and under that lid, they boil." Asle and Alida wander the streets of Bjørgvin late in autumn twilight in search of shelter. But nowhere are unwed lovers, expecting a child, welcome. The fjord shimmers in the dark, it is raining, the child stirs in Alida's belly. They are so tired and so cold. In this world, they are needed by no one but each other. And fate leads them along dangerous paths. An incredibly deep and poetic trilogy-parable about love, crime, music, and death. "Trilogy" consists of three novellas considered perhaps Fosse’s most important works — "Sleepless," "Ulva’s Dreams," and "Evening Chore." "Fosse speaks of passions and death, and he seeks their timeless meaning, writing detached yet empathetic at the same time, which is a rare skill." — Olga Drobot