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.