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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

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

The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things • Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain Must Fall' juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of traumatised schoolchildren with the interior monologue of a teacher/psychologist enlisted to aid their recovery. In the pseudo-sci-fi 'Fish' a mother tries to protect her child in a terrifying world where fish swim through the streets and lurk in alleyways

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

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

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

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

Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father • In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be

"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

Мощное автобиографическое произведение Дзюнъитиро Танидзаки "Некоторые предпочитают крапиву", действие которого происходит в Токио и Осаке 1920-х годов • Брак Канаме и Мисако распадается: ища страсти и самореализации в объятиях других, они размышляют об унижении развода. Отец Мисако считает, что их отношения были испорчены влиянием новой и чуждой культуры, и поэтому пытается залечить разрыв, обучая своего зятя освященным веками японским традициям эстетического и чувственного наслаждения. Результатом является захватывающий, леденящий душу конфликт между древним и современным, молодым и старым • Книга на английском языке • A powerful, autobiographical work set in 1920s Tokyo and Osaka • The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes • Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding • Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral service for a man she met at the airport - but is he actually dead? • The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the strangeness that permeates our world, and the darkness in us all