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The Dead Dogs

By Jon Fosse
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
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A young man lives a quiet life with his mother and cherished dog in a remote village overlooking the fjord. When the dog mysteriously disappears for the first time, it sets off a chain of events that profoundly disrupt their lives and alters their future. Jon Fosse's The Dead Dogs delves into the unforeseen shifts that challenge the characters' relationships, imbuing the story with a pervasive sense of otherness and introspection.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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A single play edition of The Dead Dogs, translated by May-Brit Akerholt written by Jon Fosse, Europe's most performed playwright. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future.

Legendary dramatist Jon Fosse's new play Fosse’s explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a pervasive sense of otherness.

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A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before...

In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future.

Fosse’s drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters’ relationships.

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783191284

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd

Contributors:

  • Translated by May-Brit Akerholt

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 129g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Jon Fosse Non-Fiction Series: Oberon Modern Plays

About the Author

Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more than forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Two (A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and Winter), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly’s Wing, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep), Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am The Wind. Plays Six (Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in a Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea) will be published in May 2014. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010.

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