Autumn
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
From the author of the monumental My Struggle series comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons.
Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the precision and intensity that have become his trademark. This beautifully illustrated book isa personal encyclopedia, showingus how vast, unknowable and wondrousthe world is.
“This book is full of wonders. . . . Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard’s patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted.” —The New York Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s clear-eyed prose is as stark and beautiful as the Scandinavian landscape he documents in Autumn, the first of a four-part autobiography based around the changing seasons. This stunning read by the acclaimed author of the six-part series My Struggle was expertly translated from the original Norwegian. It’s s a moving and exquisite meditation on fatherhood, childhood, and the everyday, ordinary details of Knausgaard’s home life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Novelist Knausgaard (My Struggle) eloquently expresses the delights, rewards, and insights of looking closely in this, the first of a projected quartet of autobiographical volumes based on the four seasons. Writing to his unborn daughter the author and his wife, Linda, already have three other children Knausgaard revels in everyday items such as tin cans and rubber boots; his perfect deconstruction of an old-fashioned landline telephone is a joy. His thoughts take to the heavens as well, whether contemplating the sun overhead, the arrival of twilight, or the migration of birds each year. He is not shy about exposing the scatological or the cruel in life; there is both softness and hardness in his musings, reverence and irreverence. Most of all, his writing encourages the reader to see the connections between quotidian things and the bigger picture and to appreciate both continuity and change. Autumn hums in the background as apple trees flourish and days get darker, and one looks forward to what associations he will uncover in the remaining seasons of the year.
