A Time for Everything

A spellbinding pursuit of divine mysteries from the celebrated author of My Struggle The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now and loving observations of landscapes and objects . . . an extraordinary novel and completely original. The Independent In the sixteenth century Antinous Bellori a boy of eleven is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beingsone carrying a spear the other a flaming torch. This event is decisive in Belloris life and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels the intermediaries of the divine. Stretching from the Garden of Eden to the present A Time for Everything reimagines key allegorical encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lots shame in Sodom; Noahs isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenesfrom the Bible and beyond--Knausgaards imagination takes flight. The result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition legend and the Apocrypha these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change and can the immortal perish?