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Summer

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 4). Seasons Quartet

By (author) Karl Ove Knausgaard
Translated by Ingvild Burkey
Illustrated by Anselm Kiefer
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Published: 7th Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 140mm h 36mm d 213mm
Weight: 817g
ISBN-10: 1910701696
ISBN-13: 9781910701690
Barcode No: 9781910701690
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Synopsis
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.

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[Knausgaard is] endlessly curious about the world... [and] 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 *