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    "description": "<p>Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bj&oslash;rgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelg&auml;ngers &ndash; two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions.<br />In this final instalment of Jon Fosse's&nbsp;<em>Septology</em>, the major prose work by 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (&nbsp;<em>Le Monde</em>), we follow the lives of the two Asles as younger adults in flashbacks: the narrator meets his lifelong love, Ales; joins the Catholic Church; and makes a living bytrying to paint away all the pictures stuck in his mind.&nbsp;<em>A New Name: Septology VI-VII</em>&nbsp;is a transcendent explorationof the human condition, and a radically other reading experience &ndash; incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.</p>",
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