Name: A Time for Everything
ISBN: 9781846275913

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Knausgaard's novel A Time For Everything was originally published by Portobello as A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven. The book is now restored to its original structure in a new edition which is faithful to the original text.

A Time for Everything

Karl Ove Knausgård

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. 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. 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. 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?

I was really excited to read this and for it to be about angels. My first and (probably)consequently last Knaussgard.

A really tough read, so bad yet so long. A long lump of nothing, cottagecore-bible-fan-fic.

martian1138

TOCDA+

I was really excited to read this and for it to be about angels. My first and (probably)consequently last Knaussgard.

A really tough read, so bad yet so long. A long lump of nothing, cottagecore-bible-fan-fic.



Maurice FitzGerald

This is the best novel i ever remember reading. It brings back my feeling that reading is the best most profound drug ever.

A Time for Everything

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