{"title":"Karl Ove Knausgaard","description":"Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize, and his second, A Time for Everything, was longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared. His work is published in thirty-five languages.","products":[{"product_id":"the-school-of-night-hardcover","title":"The School of Night - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist, the future he yearns for becomes possible--as long as he is willing to sacrifice everything and stop at nothing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-four years later, Kristian sees his dreams come to fruition when a major retrospective of his work is held in New York City. As his past catches up to him, Kristian's world begins to crumble. Success comes at a price, but is he prepared to pay it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a thrilling twist on Christopher Marlowe's \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, Karl Ove Knausgaard masterfully spins a cautionary tale about the lengths that we will go to achieve success--and how far we are willing to fall. His most daring and macabre novel yet, \u003ci\u003eThe School of Night\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible tale about dark temptations and moral depravity, and what we forget when we bargain with the devil.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102177333471,"sku":"9780593832806","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/thL9VxctMe9780593832806.webp?v=1781079088"},{"product_id":"the-third-realm-paperback","title":"The Third Realm - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The people in \u003ci\u003eThe Third Realm \u003c\/i\u003eare as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard's autobiographical persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can't stop reading.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eLev Grossman, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I've ever read. Novel by novel, Knausgaard is replenishing some feral charge to the world.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eBrandon Taylor, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change--and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of us \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor several days, a strange and bright new star in the sky above Nor­way has sown an unyielding sense of foreboding, of agitation, and of fear. Tove, a painter on holiday with her family, has spiraled into a psychosis that stirs her into a flurry of unbridled creativity. Geir, a policeman who has been investigating a grisly triple murder, comes to a sinister revelation he must keep to himself. Nineteen-year-old Line falls in love with the lead singer of a metal band and is lured into a secret and frightening world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut most bewildering, and disquieting, is the discovery made by Syvert, an undertaker: since the star has appeared, no one has died. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Third Realm\u003c\/i\u003e, Karl Ove Knausgaard returns to the spellbinding world of The Morning Star and \u003ci\u003eThe Wolves of Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e, as a cast of new and familiar characters continue to reckon with the meaning of this star. What is haunting them, and why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs supernatural forces collide with the mundanities of the everyday, and the threshold between life and death becomes diffuse, people are forced to live their lives as before while the world around them slowly changes in inexplicable ways. Piercing through human existence into the bestial and phantasmagorical, Knausgaard flings open the gates to our most distressing neuroses and forces us to ask: What happens if the dark forces in the world are set free?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102512255199,"sku":"9780593655238","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Qhc5kshkP69780593655238.webp?v=1781083397"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/karl-ove-knausgaard.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}