Results for "Aitken, Martin"

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew me... Read More about The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century

An NPR Best Book of 2023“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.” —The Washington Post“The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the religious, the world as cosmic accident versus embodiment of ... Read More about The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel

A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about wh... Read More about The Morning Star: A Novel

“An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette.” — Olga RavnAn incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves — from within the limits of the psychiatric systemPerfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen and devotees of ... Read More about What Kingdom

From the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. In these wide-ranging... Read More about In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

The spellbinding story of a young woman’s dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summerIn their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as ... Read More about First Comes Summer: A Novel