Vintage books Boyhood Island Knausgaard Karl Ove

In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project • The End reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. It is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - from his ambitions to his doubts and frailties

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads • How to be a good father? • Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard’s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one father’s personal experience, and somehow, every father’s too • Selected from the book A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death • When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world - from twilight to the migration of birds, from Van Gogh to forgiveness - with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark

As 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 cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his shame in drink and rock music • Then, little by little, things begin to change. He falls in love, gives up writing and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him back

Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing • All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation, and to his own great distress he develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. And all the while the shadow of his father looms large

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story • They say that terror is a disease • A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments of the infamous Doctor Moreau will reach their inevitable conclusion

Пятнадцать человек на сундук мертвеца - Йо-хо-хо, и бутылка рома! • Когда юный Джим Хокинс обнаруживает карту, указывающую путь к сокровищам капитана Флинта, он и сквайр Трелони отправляются в плавание на "Эспаньоле" на поиски золота. Они и не подозревают, что среди их команды есть подлый пират Лонг Джон Сильвер. У Сильвера есть коварный план, как оставить все золото себе. Сможет ли отважный Джим перехитрить самого печально известного пирата, когда-либо плававшего в открытом море? Удастся ли ему сбежать с Острова сокровищ живым? • Книга на английском языке • Bursting with rich descriptive detail, discover the classic world of Treasure Island • Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! • When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to Captain Flint's treasure, he and Squire Trelawney set sail on the Hispaniola to search for the gold

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know • It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write • This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too

"Весна" - это глубоко трогательный роман о семье, нашей повседневной жизни, наших радостях и наших трудностях, прекрасно проиллюстрированный Анной Бьергер • Весна следует за отцом и его новорожденной дочерью в течение одного апрельского дня, от восхода до заката. Это день, наполненный маленькими радостями семейной жизни, но также и ее глубокими испытаниями. В этом поразительном романе из "Квартета времен года" Карл Ове Кнаусгаард бескомпромиссно размышляет о самых мрачных моментах жизни и о том, что может поддержать нас в них • Книга на английском языке • 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 over one day... Entirely ingenious' Daily Telegraph • Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset

Роман "Зима" от мировой литературной суперзвезды Карла Ове Кнаусгаарда - это до боли красивая коллекция ежедневных размышлений и любовных писем, адресованных непосредственно нерожденной дочери Кнаусгаарда • Зимой мы воссоединяемся с великим Карлом Уве Кнаусгаардом, поскольку приближается рождение его дочери. Готовясь к ее приезду, он подытоживает мир, видя его по-новому. В то время как новая жизнь маячит на горизонте, земля также находится в спячке, ожидая возвращения более теплой погоды. В своем неподражаемо чувственном стиле он пишет обо всем - от луны, зимних ботинок и беспорядка до сов и дней рождения. Ничего не принимая как должное, он наполняет эти повседневные знакомые предметы и идеи новым смыслом • Поразительное, сострадательное и изысканно красивое творчество Кнаусгаарда не похоже ни на что другое