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Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Non-Fiction
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times and Evening StandardKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in SkOne 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 a ...Show more
Home and Away - Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Fredrik Ekelund
Category: Sport
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 mat ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Reference
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
Category: Reference | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more
Inadvertent: Why I Write by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Biography | Series: Why I Write Ser.
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 ...Show more
My Struggle Book 1 - A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Biography | Series: My Struggle
"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 ...Show more
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch by Knausgaard, Karl Ove
Category: Art
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch?s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on ...Show more
Some Rain Must Fall (#5 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle
"The International bestsellerAs 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 clichUd, and his social efforts are ...Show more
Some Rain Must Fall (My Struggle #5) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Fiction | Series: My Struggle
At twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a disma ...Show more
Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Anna Bjerger (Illustrator)
Category: Biography | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
"Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it." -The New York Times "Poignant and beautiful...Even if you think you won't like Knausgaard, try this ...Show more
Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.'Moving... A circadian novel, set ov ...Show more