Praise for A Time for Everything:
“A marvelous book . . . Knausgaard’s most evident strength as a writer is his gift for minute description, especially of nature, but also of the human psyche . . . The descriptions of forests, floods, streams, fields, and Henrik Vankel’s secluded island are ravishing and . . . create the feeling that we are being transported, again and again, into some primordial world.”
—Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books
“The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects . . . this is an extraordinary novel, and completely original.”
—The Independent
Praise for My Struggle:
“This deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”
—Rachel Cusk, The Guardian
“Knausgaard’s command of the traditional novelistic procedure is the reason these books are the opposite of dull, though on the face of it they should be. Knausgaard is always spinning a tale, always drawing the reader along with some romantic entanglement, sexual disaster, or emotional crisis. He feeds in atmosphere in just the right amounts; his pacing is flawless. How wonderful to read an experimental novel that fires every nerve ending while summoning in the reader the sheer sense of how amazing it is to be alive, on this planet and no other.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides, The New York Times Book Review
“What’s notable is Karl Ove’s ability, rare these days, to be fully present in and mindful of his own existence. Every detail is put down without apparent vanity or decoration, as if the writing and the living are happening simultaneously. There shouldn’t be anything remarkable about any of it except for the fact that it immerses you totally. You live his life with him.”
—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books
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