Arendal

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, and ice lies all the way to the sea, so thick that cars can drive on it. There, almost home, but caught up in memories of his doomed love affair with Asya, a space opens up between the known and the unknown for Syvert. Both in the city, as he wanders along the streets in the dark, and in him.

Arendal is a novel about impossible love and about impossible life. About ships of the dead, about fire and ice, dizzying starry skies and a man trying to find his foothold in the world.


PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:

‘Absorbs you utterly’ Sunday Times
‘One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read’ Brandon Taylor
‘Addictive’ Daily Telegraph
‘Brilliant storytelling . . . Epic’ Independent
‘As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama’ Spectator
‘Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive’ New York Times


Arendal is set in the Morning Star universe.