Summer

#4 Seasons Quartet

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey, Anselm Kiefer

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English

Harvill
30 April 2018

Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Family & relationships; Places & peoples: pictorial works

Series: Seasons Quartet

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.

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Illustrated by: Anselm Kiefer
Translated by: Ingvild Burkey
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 817g
ISBN: 9781910701690
ISBN 10: 1910701696
Series: Seasons Quartet
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 30 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) 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 to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.

Reviews for Summer (#4 Seasons Quartet)

[Knausgaard is] endlessly curious about the world... [and] his perceptions of it are so particular -- Andrew Anthony * Observer * Engrossing... Knausgaard's prose evokes universal themes from intimate specifics * Publishers Weekly *