Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3) - Hardcover

Knausgaard, Karl Ove

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 191070167X ISBN 13: 9781910701676

Publisher: harvill secker uk, 2018

Synopsis

"Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for."

Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.

About this title

About the Author

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 for Everything, 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.Anna Bjerger (Illustrator) Anna Bjerger was born in 1973 and is a Swedish artist who lives and works outside AElmhult in Smaland, 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.

Review

"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." -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph * "An unexpected treat... A lovely piece of work." * Sunday Telegraph * "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." * The New York Times * "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." * Monocle * "Oodles of musing on life and art that's by turns meandering and electrifying." -- Anthony Cummins * Metro *

Edition details

• Publisher: harvill secker uk
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 191070167X
• ISBN 13: 9781910701676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 182