Morning and Evening - Jon Fosse Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov Family

Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov Family portrays a tumultuous upbringing in 1820s St

humiliated

the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon

Effortlessly beautiful

One of literature's most moving portraits of friendship

Morning and Evening - Jon Fosse Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov FamilyA child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johanness fathers thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our