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Henrik Vankel
Series · 2 books · 1998-2004

Books in series

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Out of the World

1998

Den 26 år gamle Henrik Vankel befinner seg i Nord-Norge, og han trives i sin jobb som lærervikar. Men en dag oppdager han at han er forelsket i en elev, og hun er bare 13 år. Med utgangspunkt i forholdet mellom Henrik og Miriam fortelles en besettende, og ren, kjærlighetshistorie, men boken er også en dannelsesroman om en ung manns oppvekst på 1980-tallet, i en familie og en verden der skam og skyldfølelse er blant de sterkeste drivkreftene. © DnBB AS
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#2

A Time for Everything

2004

In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch . . . This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot’s shame in Sodom; Noah’s isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenes – from the Bible and beyond – Knausgaard’s imagination takes flight: the result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic, spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition, legend, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change, and can the immortal perish?

Author

Karl Ove Knausgard
Karl Ove Knausgard
Author · 28 books

Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize. Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.

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