Description
A Time for Everything follows an eleven-year-old boy, Antinous Bellori, whose solitary afternoon in a northern Italian forest turns into a haunting encounter with the uncanny—an experience narrated with immediacy, sensory precision, and a quietly mounting sense of foreboding. Across time and distance, the story unfolds as a meditation on how moments of wonder, fear, and loss can echo far beyond their original setting. With Knausgård’s signature blend of lyrical realism and expansive, Proustian attention to inner life, the novel explores themes of time’s irreversibility, the fragile enchantment of youth, and the ways family bonds and mortality shape what comes after. Intermittently beautiful and deliberately strange, it ultimately builds toward a coda that returns to the coast and the everyday rituals of love, grief, and remembrance—suggesting that “everything” has its season, even when we don’t understand it yet.
Available Editions
paperback
Archipelago
Published Nov 20, 2009
499 pages
ISBN: 9780980033083
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
Translation
From: nor
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgård.