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Blue Harbor · Holt
Opening book
Karl Ove Knausgård
2009 · Portobello Books · 528 pages
It's the 1560s and Antinous Bellori, a boy of 11, is exploring the woods above his home in the north Italian mountains when night falls. Suddenly fearful, the boy wanders blindly through the trees, sensing danger at every turn, until he comes, unseen, upon a clearing in which there stand two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch: angels - this event is decisive in Bellori's life, just as encounters with angels have been for others throughout history. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soa…
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A prose-driven with strong ideas, awestruck and immersive read.
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