A Time for Everything

Karl Ove Knausgaard · b. 1968 · Norway

Originally En tid for alt (Norwegian) · translated by James Anderson

Why it matters

A Renaissance scholar's obsessive study of biblical angel sightings, from Eden to Ezekiel, becomes a strange, sweeping meditation on the divine made visible in the world, before My Struggle turned the lens on himself.

At a glance

Dense theological digression braided through retold biblical narratives.