{"product_id":"arendal-karl-ove-knausgaard-9781787305557","title":"Arendal","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel about impossible love and impossible life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe haunting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Death in the Family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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; ice covers the strait all the way to the sea, so thick that cars can drive on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere, almost home, but caught up in memories of his doomed love affair with Asya, a space opens between the known and the unknown, both in the city, as Syvert wanders the streets in the dark, and within him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArendal is a novel about impossible love and impossible life, about ships of the dead, fire and ice, dizzying starry skies and a man trying to find his foothold in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Absorbs you utterly' Sunday Times\n\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I've ever read' Brandon Taylor\n\u003cbr\u003e'Addictive' Daily Telegraph\n\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant storytelling . . . Epic' Independent\n\u003cbr\u003e'As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama' Spectator\n\u003cbr\u003e'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArendal is set in the Morning Star universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karl Ove Knausgaard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49985283260659,"sku":"9781787305557","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/arendal.jpg?v=1785295637","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/arendal-karl-ove-knausgaard-9781787305557","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}