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The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a
nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns
home from military service to live with his mother and brother on
the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of
his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching
through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds
a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union. In present-day
Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has
always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is
preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers
some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of
Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is
heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her
world. A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an
intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and
half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives.
The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series,
it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before
the blazing and mysterious star descends.
Andersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that
recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a
contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her
panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival
photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and
period interiors, as well as the sparse topography of northern
Sweden, where she grew up. The paintings utilize a selection of
motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked
pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Resembling
still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic
scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammershoi
(1864-1916) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Part of a self-conscious
effort to capture an experience rather than a specific event, the
compositions are freer and more abstract. Splendid color
reproductions bring the textured brushstrokes, loose washes, and
stark graphic lines to life on the page. The book also features a
new essay by critically acclaimed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. The
Lost Paradise is published on the occasion of an eponymous
exhibition presented at David Zwirner, New York, in 2020.
A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021
"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive." -Dwight Garner, New
York Times The international bestseller from the author of the
renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing,
ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our
attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless One long night in
August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their
summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own
place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible
seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out
drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a
psychiatric care unit, is on a night shift when one of her patients
escapes. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in
the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding.
Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under
the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at
night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found
brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral
service for a man she met at the airport - but is he actually dead?
The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the
strangeness that permeates our world, and the darkness in us all.
Karl Ove Knausgaard's astonishing new novel, his first after the My
Struggle cycle, goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos, to
what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed and
the realms of the living and the dead collide.
What if God exists? What if angels are real? What if we treated
religious tracts, including the Bible, as empirical evidence of the
supernatural world? Karl Ove Knausgaard's major novel, A Time For
Everything, is about God and his angels. It posits that angels are
real, and that God exists. It posits, further, that heavenly beings
evolve, and that even God may be subject to change. Written with
Knausgaard's characteristic style - level, patient, and intensely
readable - it is a dazzling and innovative examination of the
relationships between human, angels and God. Knausgaard's novel A
Time For Everything was originally published by Portobello as A
Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven. The book is now restored to its
original structure in a new edition which is faithful to the
original text
The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a
nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns
home from military service to live with his mother and brother on
the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of
his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching
through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds
a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union. In present-day
Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has
always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is
preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers
some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of
Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is
heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her
world. A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an
intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and
half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives.
The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series,
it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before
the blazing and mysterious star descends.
Nine lives will be forever changed . . .
One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes.
Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly...
"My Struggle: Book One" introduces American readers to the
audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international
literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume
autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been
anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling
literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.
Unafraid of the big issues--death, love, art, fear--and yet
committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, "My
Struggle "is an essential work of contemporary literature.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his
reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were
central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental
and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his
paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of
emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's
early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in
1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred
on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the
deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as
well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply
religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a
Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a
visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick
society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in
vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much
criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a
painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a
profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged
experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this
book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most
remarkable works.
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The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight
into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist
Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most
difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet
it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers
working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist
easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of
our lives. Knausgaard writes to "erode [his] own notions about the
world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write
about it." The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon
something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of
defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation,
Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative
process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My
Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily
and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl
Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in
English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on
themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction. Here, Knausgaard
discusses Madame Bovary, the Northern Lights, Ingmar Bergman, and
the work of an array of writers and visual artists, including Knut
Hamsun, Michel Houellebecq, Anselm Kiefer and Cindy Sherman. These
essays beautifully capture Knausgaard's ability to mediate between
the deeply personal and the universal, demonstrating his trademark
self-scrutiny and his deep longing to authentically see,
understand, and experience the world. 'Knausgaard is among the
finest writers alive' New York Times
One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an
addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and
grief. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning
Star, is available to pre-order now * Karl Ove Knausgaard writes
about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood
and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his
relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his
distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on
his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must
balance the demands of caring for a young family with his
determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a
universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face
in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the
author's very life were at stake. 'A masterpiece... Its depiction
of a family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of
writing I've read in years' Observer
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly
beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters
addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughter In Winter, we
rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter
draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the
world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the horizon, the earth
is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return.
In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about everything from
the moon, winter boots and messiness, to owls and birthdays. Taking
nothing for granted, he fills these everyday familiar objects and
ideas with new meaning. Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely
beautiful, Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow, he
shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international
phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling
new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *
Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove,
new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and
creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power,
benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case
of his cruel father. In the now infamously direct style of the My
Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and
defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is
frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never
become quite what we set out to be. 'Knausgaard finds the sublime
in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and
anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates
their exaggerated feel' Times Literary Supplement
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives,
our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna
Bjerger. I have just finished writing this book for you. What
happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions,
are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is
always something to live for. Spring follows a father and his
newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset.
It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its
deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quartet,
Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life's darkest
moments and what can sustain us through them. Utterly gripping and
brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard's famously pensive and honest
style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking
familial trauma and the emotional epicentre of this singular
literary series.
An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood
from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove
Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to
pre-order now * As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's
prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement
and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his
youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and
cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his
shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things begin
to change. He falls in love, gives up writing and the beginnings of
an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive
binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him
back. 'Breathtaking... Knausgaard has a rare talent for making
everyday life seem fascinating' The Times
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My Struggle: Book 6 (Paperback)
Karl Ove Knausgaard; Translated by Don Bartlett, Martin Aitken
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An electrifying story about love and new life from the
international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove
Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to
pre-order now * This is a book about leaving your wife and
everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about
friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of
becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life,
ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music
classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains
of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm
when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one
man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too. 'Compelling,
rewarding...breathtaking' Observer
Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around
thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics. Karl Ove
Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small
children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls asleep
in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee and
Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away in Brazil, where he plays
football on the beach and watches matches with friends. Fredrik
loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful football.
He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. In Home and Away, two writers use
football and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to reflect on life and
death, art and politics, class and literature and the most
important question: was this the best football championship ever?
The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove
Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to
his unborn daughter. 'Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and
enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it' The Times Autumn
begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn
daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material
and natural world - from twilight to the migration of birds, from
Van Gogh to forgiveness - with the precision and mesmerising
intensity that have become his trademark. With artwork by Vanessa
Baird 'This book is full of wonders... The world feels repainted'
New York Times
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of
short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest
daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. 'Knausgaard
unearths the mysteries of the commonplace' Observer In Summer, Karl
Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice
cream with his children, lawn sprinklers and ladybirds. He
experiments with the beginnings of a novel and keeps a diary in
which the small events of his family's life are recorded. Against a
canvas of memories, longings, and experiences of art and
literature, he searches for the meaning of moments as they pass us
by. 'Wondrous... There are blissful glimpses of nature's mystery
and balance' Financial Times
A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling
author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard
Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The
Scream In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard
sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard
Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired
Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists,
including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large.
Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard
tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just
one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of
choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done. Including
reproductions of some of Munch's most emotionally and
psychologically intense works, chosen by Knausgaard, this utterly
original and ardent work of criticism will delight and educate both
experts and novices of literature and the visual arts alike.
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