I Is Another: Septology III-V

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE** **A *New York Times* Editors’ Choice** ***Septology *named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by* The New York Times*** Fosse’s portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable.”— ***Publishers Weekly,* Starred Review** *I is Another* follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours’ drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. *I is Another* calls into question concrete notions around subjectivity and the self. What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another?