Knausgård, Karl Ove
Summary: In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays-to name just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar objects and ideas he fills with new meaning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: "A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2014
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Summary: At eighteen years, old Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine. He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2015
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Summary: The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: "You don't know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don't know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don't know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don't know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in your chest, day and night, day and night, day and night. So begins Spring, the recommencement of Knausgaard's fantastic and spellbinding literary project of assembling a personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNAUSGARD, KARL OVE KNAKnausgård, Karl Ove
Summary: "A six-volume work of fiction by the Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A time for everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2009
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Summary: "A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, 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 Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun. One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021