Some Rain Must Fall

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA

Karl Ove Knausgaard has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, and simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Vintage, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies, London. Originally published with the title Min Kamp Femte bok in Norway by Forlaget Oktober, Oslo, in 2010. Distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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‘Death Fugue’ by Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger, from Poems of Paul Celan, published by Anvil, 2007. Copyright © 1972, 1980, 1988, 1995 by Michael Hamburger. Reprinted with the permission of the publishers Carcanet Press (Manchester, UK) and Persea Books, Inc. (New York, USA, www.perseabooks.com), with thanks to the Estate of Paul Celan and Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, Random House Germany.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968–

[Min kamp femte bok. English]

Some rain must fall / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

(My struggle ; 5)

First published with the title: Min kamp femte bok, in 2010.

ISBN 978-0-345-81554-5

eBook ISBN 978-0-345-81556-9

1. Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968– —Fiction. I. Bartlett, Don, translator. II. Title. III. Title: Min kamp femte bok. English. IV. Series: Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968– . Min kamp. English ; 5

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