Summer - Hardcover

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.

Anselm Kiefer is an internationally acclaimed German painter and sculptor known for work that explores his home country's sensibilities and culture, including an unflinching gaze on the rise of Nazism. His art has been exhibited in museums around the world, including the Louvre and White Cube gallery, and he has directed the opera Am Anfang.

“Engrossing. . . . Knausgaard’s prose evokes universal themes from intimate specifics.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
 
“Knausgaard knows that 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 Reviews (starred review)

PRAISE FOR THE SEASONS SERIES AND KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD:

“Spring, written after its author attained vast international celebrity, feels like a new expression of the power of detail to order a story. It suggests that we have been misinformed. Knausgaard’s work is not focused on the endless dilation of a specific life; it’s not focused on a personal story, or even the personal in a story like this one, as close as it comes to personal tragedy. His emphases—on the children’s soft sun-tanned bodies playing in the Swedish summer, on the uncomfortable pressure of his own bowel movements on the toilet, on his wife’s out-of-scale body being carried down the staircase—aren’t personal. They are, instead, part of a meditation on the inability of things like personal taste, personal history and, yes, even celebrity, to absolve us from being human—from being material, solitary and impersonal creatures.” —The New York Times

“Winter offers some of Knausgaard’s best writing. . . . His essays are often wild rides that end breathless and alive.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Knausgaard made his name with My Struggle, a multi-part memoir-novel cut so close to the bone that his family shunned him. More gentle, Winter is the second in a seasonal quartet explaining the world to his fourth child while she’s still in the womb. A series of mini-essays riffing on whatever comes to mind—from atoms to the 1970s and the joy of dressing up as Father Christmas—it sounds mad, and often is, but it’s also sweet, funny and brimful of wide-eyed seasonal wonder.” —Metro (UK)

“Karl Ove Knausgaard has taken this kind of unflinching observation, association, and insight to a level few of us can imagine. . . . The newest book, Winter, has short meditations on everything . . . and it’s one of the wisest, saddest, and most beautiful things I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.” —Big Think

“For fans of the Norwegian’s mammoth breakout work, there is much that is recognizable in Autumn. . . . Knausgaard’s sharp eye for detail, for one thing. His willingness to suddenly turn the narrative to pursue new and uncomfortable lines of thought, for another. But mostly, what feels most familiar is Knausgaard’s reliable internal muse. . . . An unusual mixture of digression, reflection, thought experiment, diary entry and writing prompt.” —The Globe and Mail