Vaim Hotel

'A legitimate heir to Kafka, Beckett and Thomas Bernhard, a compulsively readable mystic and one of the greatest living writers. Read him.'
— Javier Cercas, author of Soldiers of Salamis

‘Reading Jon Fosse is always a curious and wondrous experience.’
— Xiaolu Guo, author of Call Me Ishmaelle

‘[H]ow can a novelist make a reader feel so lost and so found at the same time? It is strange. A strange miracle.’
— Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian

‘Transfixing... Fosse illuminates this mystery with a few mystical clues, and he pulls off a surprising and magical ending. It’s a delight.’
— Publishers Weekly

‘Whereas Septology was profound and meditative, Vaim is more mysterious and playful. The translation by Damion Searls is, as ever, excellently judged in its rhythms and tones. The narrative has a folk tale quality about it…. A satisfyingly constructed story, Vaim shows Fosse shedding his heavy philosophical burdens (temporarily at least) to enjoy himself as a storyteller.’
— Rónán Hession, Irish Times

‘Something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.’
— Ruth Margalit, New York Review of Books