A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes
dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an
entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's
thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own
thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly
the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel
concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.