The novel Morning and Afternoon by Norwegian Nobel Prize winner for Literature Jon Fosse, written in 2000, a joint publication of Nórdica Libros and De Conatus, will be published in Spanish, in a translation by Cristina Gómez-Baggethun and Kirsti Baggethun, next Monday in Spain.
It will be distributed in Mexico at the upcoming Guadalajara International Book Fair. "It is the most hopeful work by the recent winner, due to its tone of reconciliation," said Anders Olsson, president of the Nobel Committee for Literature. With permission from Nórdica Publishing, we present to our readers the first pages of this work as a preview.1More hot water, Olai, says old matron AnnaCome on, don't stand there in the kitchen doorway, he says.Now, now, says Olaiand she feels a cold and a heat spread across her skin and her skin prickles and a happiness runs through her and comes out of her eyes in the form of tears as she runs to the stove and begins to fill a trough with steaming water, so hot water, it won't be water, she thinks, and she pours water into the trough and hears Old Matron Anna say that this will be enough, it will be enough, she says, and Olai looks up and there is Old Matron Anna, taking the trough
I'll take it, says old matron Anna.
And at that moment a muffled scream sounds from the bedroom and Olai looks Matron Anna in the eyes and shakes his head.
