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Andvake (novella)
Andvake (lit. "Insomnia") is a 2007 novella by Norwegian writer Jon Fosse.
The story is set a few hundred years ago. The young couple, "Asle" and "Alvida", has come to the city of Bjørgvin, looking for a place to stay. She is expecting a child in a couple of days. Alida is an outcast, her own mother will not recognize her, and Asle is orphaned. Now they only have each other. A parallel can be drawn to the fate of Joseph and Mary in the Gospels.