Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse one of Norway's most
celebrated authors and playwrights famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his
writing. In the title work a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward
adolescence unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In
'And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me' a haunting and dream-like novella a dispute between
neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various sources the texts gathered
here together for the first time demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes
of Fosse's imagination and occasions some of his greatest works.
