By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim Hotel continues a triptych of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village. No one knows why The Guest has traveled to Vaim. He checks into the Vaim Hotel, whose only other inhabitant is Brita, the domineering proprietor who swears sheâs seen him before and slips into his daily wanderings. As he acquaints himself with village life, The Guest soon learns that Vaim is not like other places. Then things start to vanish: his new fishing pole; his wallet, bag, and car keys. With no way to pay his bill, The Guest must accept that his short trip has become an indefinite stay.
Suffused with dark humor and âmystical realismâ (The Guardian), Vaim Hotelâwhich can be read on its own or as the second of a loose triptychâoccupies the intersection of the mundane and uncanny. Itâs a mesmerizing tragicomic novel unfolding a world caught between temporal reality and otherworldly implicationsâwhere everything is as it's been, and nothing is as it seems.
By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim Hotel continues a triptych of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village. No one knows why The Guest has traveled to Vaim. He checks into the Vaim Hotel, whose only other inhabitant is Brita, the domineering proprietor who swears sheâs seen him before and slips into his daily wanderings. As he acquaints himself with village life, The Guest soon learns that Vaim is not like other places. Then things start to vanish: his new fishing pole; his wallet, bag, and car keys. With no way to pay his bill, The Guest must accept that his short trip has become an indefinite stay.
Suffused with dark humor and âmystical realismâ (The Guardian), Vaim Hotelâwhich can be read on its own or as the second of a loose triptychâoccupies the intersection of the mundane and uncanny. Itâs a mesmerizing tragicomic novel unfolding a world caught between temporal reality and otherworldly implicationsâwhere everything is as it's been, and nothing is as it seems.