Arendal
$33.58
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A novel about impossible love and impossible life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family.
The haunting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family.
The year is 1976. Syvert is on his way back to his wife and two sons after a work trip when his car breaks down outside Arendal and he has to spend the night in the city. It is winter and bitterly cold; ice covers the strait all the way to the sea, so thick that cars can dr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787305557 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787305554 |
| Author: | Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
A joy to read * Klassekampen, Books of the Year *
Knausgaard masterfully depicts the outer surroundings of a dark and frozen city down to the smallest detail, while at the same time luring the reader inward into a far more obscure landscape… Arendal has good drive and is exciting. The fact that the plot is more concentrated does not make the themes narrower or smaller, quite the opposite * Dag og Tid *
Disturbing and obsessive * FÆDRELANDSVENNEN *
Sparkles in beautifully precise sentences and observations * DAGSAVISEN *
About The Author
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.
Martin Aitken
Martin Aitken’s translations of Scandinavian fiction are widely published. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the US National Book Awards, among other prizes. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019 and, for the first book in the Morning Star cycle, the US National Translation Award in Prose in 2022. He lives in Denmark.
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