The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last.
So eine wie ich ist hier eigentlich nicht vorgesehen. - Karen Köhlers erster Roman über eine junge Frau, die sich auflehnt. Gegen die Strukturen ihrer Gesellschaft und für die Freiheit
Karl Kraus hat aus Die letzten Tage der Menschheit oftmals im Vortragssaal gelesen, das Drama sei nicht für das Theater geschrieben, sondern für Leser.
Millionen junge Leser hat Karl May in die Welt der Rothäute und Bleichgesichter entführt. Gebannt folgen sie seit Generationen den spannenden Geschichten von Old Shatterhand und dem edlen Apachen Winnetou.
It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes...
The New York Times bestseller."This book is full of wonders...Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard's patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted." --The New York Times
Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing.
The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental My Struggle series, ‘perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’.
In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project.