A Time for Everything
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 098003308X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 499 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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—The Guardian. 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 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. —Metro UK A marvelous book. —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The breadth of the history of ideas in Knausgaard’s second novel has a span like the wings of an archangel and brings together Old Testamen
Karl O. . Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968 and made his debut with the novel Ute av verden (Out of the World). James Anderson’s literary translations from the Norwegian include Berlin Poplars by Anne B. A Time for Everything, his second novel, was nominated for the Nordic Council Prize. It is his first to be translated into English. Ragde, Nutmeg by
remarkable one of the most remarkable books i have read in a long time.knausgaard is using language in a way i have not encountered before --and that's saying something, believe you me.i do not mean to say that he is avantgarde or innovative in his use of language.he is not.nor is his language particularly beautiful.it is not.it is that he does something extraordinary in his writing.almost like god himself he creates the *natur. An original and engrossing read Breon Mitchell A Time for Everything is one of the most intriguing works of literature to appear in the past decade. Its pages are filled with detailed and arresting imagery, strange flights of imagination, and intellectual exploration. It is also ultimately dark and disturbing. To say that it deals with the history of angels, retells the stories of Cain and Abel, and of Noah and the Flood, and ends in despair for the fictional aut. las cosas said A soaring tale of angels, god and man. Tracing the history of angels through the Bible and historical inquiry encompasses one layer of this novel. Another, connected quest is to tell the fuller lives summarized in several stories from the Book of Genesis. "The only things that have always been remembered are the story of the first people who were driven out of paradise and into the valley, the story of the two brothers Cain and Abel, and the story of the
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?. 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. 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. 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