From everyday violence and magic to the voices of gossiping neighbours, full of wisdom and dark humour, this engrossing novel about a family house in an African neighbourhood draws on the rich oral traditions of Nigeria.
A poignant, funny and engrossing exploration of family life, centred around a cataclysmic event and its aftermath; from the author of Night Waking and Signs for Lost Children.
Knausgaard's novel A Time For Everything was originally published by Portobello as A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven. The book is now restored to its original structure in a new edition which is faithful to the original text.
Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring right through to the present day, this title revisits key moments when men have come face to face with these intermediaries of the divine: Cain and Abel cultivating their differences murderously; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the Flood; and the death of Christ.