Karl Ove Knausgaard

Anna Bjerger

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Out of the World

The compulsive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Morning Star

The Wolves of Eternity

The Third Realm

Essays

In the Land of the Cyclops

Knausgaard Seasons Quartet Series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Summer

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 2)

Winter

Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël

A Scandinavian Christmas

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 1)

Autumn

My Struggle Book 1

A Death in the Family

My Struggle Book 2

A Man in Love

My Struggle Book 3

Boyhood Island

My Struggle Book 4

Dancing in the Dark

My Struggle Book 5

Some Rain Must Fall

My Struggle Book 6

The End

The art of Edvard Munch

So Much Longing in So Little Space

Writing the Beautiful Game

Home and Away

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Fatherhood

Spring

Entirely ingenious. Knausgaard isn’t afraid to be gauche, anxious, vulgar, inconsistent, portentous, sentimental. He makes virtues of what, in literary novels, are often counted faults. And he makes them moving.

Spring features Knausgaard unbound. . . the book’s blunt, unforced telling brings the larger project’s meaning into sudden, brilliant focus… Knausgaard has assembled this living encyclopedia for his daughter with a wild and desperate sort of love, as a way to forge her attachment to the world, to fasten her to it... Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it.

Heavy but not heavy-handed, this true noir of the North is dark, bleak and moody. This story about life that’s set over the course of single day will move and disturb in equal measure.

An unexpected treat… A lovely piece of work.

Oodles of musing on life and art that’s by turns meandering and electrifying.

[Karl Ove Knausgaard] observes a subject so closely, mining so far into its essence – its quiddity – that the observations transcend banality and become compelling.

For anyone who is curious about this writer... Spring makes for an excellent introduction. It is the shortest book he has ever written, but it is all muscle, a generous slice of a thoughtful, ruminative life.

If you still haven’t tried Knausgaard... try Spring. It’s poignant and beautiful… you’ll get him and get why some of us have gone crazy for him.

A radical, thrilling departure from the first two volumes of his Seasons Quartet... this moving novel stylistically resembles his acclaimed My Struggle series... A remarkably honest take on the strange linkages between love, loss, laughter, and self-destruction, a perfect distillation of Knausgaard’s unique gifts.

Knausgaard’s assets are on full display, including his precise writing style and his unerring sense of detail … it is all muscle, a generous slice of thoughtful, ruminative life.

The curiously loose weave of Knausgaard’s prose allows it to return parts of the reader’s own life to them

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 3)

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. 
 
'Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious' Daily Telegraph 
 
Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quartet, Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life's darkest moments and what can sustain us through them. 
 
'Fall in love with the world, Knausgaard enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it' New York Times

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.

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 the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages. Anna Bjerger (Illustrator) Anna Bjerger was born in 1973 and is a Swedish artist who lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland, Sweden. She was educated at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London and has exhibited regularly in Sweden and internationally since the early 2000s.

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