{"product_id":"arendal","title":"Arendal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A moody slow burn. . . Unsettling, haunting, and compelling' COLIN BARRETT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe haunting new novel from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Death in the Family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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. There, 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArendal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Absorbs you utterly’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read’ Brandon Taylor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Addictive’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Brilliant storytelling . . . Epic’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Spectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArendal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eis set in the Morning Star universe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57763460809077,"sku":"10D-01C-956","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/aa431ac5-72a9-4da2-9a6d-e3c8df870f2b.jpg?v=1794567565","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/arendal","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}