Summer: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 4)

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Main Details

Title Summer: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 4)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karl Ove Knausgaard
Translated by Ingvild Burkey
Illustrated by Anselm Kiefer
SeriesSeasons Quartet
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 213,Width 140
Category/GenreMemoirs
Prose - non-fiction
Literary essays
Family and relationships
Places and peoples - pictorial works
ISBN/Barcode 9781910701690
ClassificationsDewey:839.8248
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Harvill Secker
Publication Date 7 June 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you were lying in our bed. You smiled at me and began talking. I made coffee and had a smoke in the office before I ate breakfast with you, and when your mother got up, I came in here to write a new piece. In Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice cream with his children, lawn sprinklers and ladybirds. He experiments with the beginnings of a novel and keeps a diary in which the small events of his family's life are recorded. Against a canvas of memories, longings, and experiences of art and literature, he searches for the meaning of moments as they pass us by.

Author Biography

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages. Anselm Kiefer (Illustrator) Anselm Kiefer's body of work comprises paintings, sculptures, installations, artist books, and works on paper such as watercolours, woodcuts, collages, and photographs. Fusing art and literature, Kiefer engages taboo and controversial issues from recent history as well as the ancient myth of life, death, and the cosmos. He brings to light the importance of the sacred and spiritual, myth and memory.

Reviews

[Knausgaard is] endlessly curious about the world... his perceptions of it are so particular. * Observer * [Knausgaard] brings it all alive in his prose, makes it shimmer. Whether intellectually parsing for meaning or playing this existential video game of political turmoil, horror, and heartache, his writing flows easily from quiet, thoughtful engagement to ecstatic communion with the world... He may be done with this quartet, the My Struggle series, and autofiction altogether, but I still want more of it. That kind of passionate literary intimacy is rare. * Los Angeles Review of Books * Engrossing... Knausgaard's prose evokes universal themes from intimate specifics. * Publishers Weekly * Knausgaard closes his quartet of autobiographical meditations on the seasons in an appropriately verdant and optimistic fashion. . . While interrogating the nature of storytelling, he's priming readers for a powerful, straightforward yarn. Breezy reading that's also a commentary on breezy reading. Some trick. * Kirkus *