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Nobel Prize-winning authors are usually not my thing. Most of the time I can't fully appreciate the literary value of their work. This novel of Fosse's was an exception though.

I'm glad to have listened to the audiobook which took hardly three hours. Kare Conradi's narration is one of the reasons I enjoyed this more than I had expected. Both the writing style and the topic make this a challenging read, but with his narration Conradi interprets the story with great competence and care.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an Advance Review Copy.

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challenging reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Morning and Evening written by Jon Fosse translated by Damion Searls and narrated by Kare Conradi was the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 2023 and was translated from teh original Norwegian in 2015

Kare Conradi has achieved what would seem an insurmountable task for a narrator and he does it with strong articulation, emotive vocalisation and downright talent. As a narrator, I canattest to how punctuation enables the script to be annotated much like a music score, but what to do when the author completely changes the rules and creates a new type of pace and lyricism? You make it work and Kare Conradi made it work and made it work to an epic level. I cannot even give this performance 5 stars as it supercedes that by far so I will just say I was left without words. Blinding

So if the narration is that good, what about the book? It is simply incredible, innovative but immersed deeply in tradition, an exploration of life and death from different perspectives, written with a high level of intensity due to the restructuring of punctuation and language and this is not about the translation, this is howit was written and the translation is perfection, retaining the depth of the narrative and not detracting from it

The book is written in two parts, life and death, birth to passing and it is absolutely incredible. Whether print or audiobook, this is a book that exemplifies the concept of reading as an experience and with leave you breathless and wondering what just hit you. Incredible

Thank you to Netgalley, Dreamscape Media, the author Jon Fosse, the translator Damian Searls and the narrator Kare Conradi for this mindblowing ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own