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.
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 Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages. Anselm Kiefer (Illustrator) Anselm Kiefer's body of work comprises paintings, sculptures, installations, artist books, and works on paper such as watercolours, woodcuts, collages, and photographs. Fusing art and literature, Kiefer engages taboo and controversial issues from recent history as well as the ancient myth of life, death, and the cosmos. He brings to light the importance of the sacred and spiritual, myth and memory.
[Knausgaard is] endlessly curious about the world... [and]
his perceptions of it are so particular. -- Andrew Anthony *
Observer *
[Knausgaard] brings it all alive in his prose, makes it
shimmer. Whether intellectually parsing for meaning or playing
this existential video game of political turmoil, horror, and
heartache, his writing flows easily from quiet, thoughtful
engagement to ecstatic communion with the world... He may be
done with this quartet, the My Struggle series, and
autofiction altogether, but I still want more of it. That kind of
passionate literary intimacy is rare. * Los Angeles Review of Books
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Engrossing... Knausgaard's prose evokes universal themes
from intimate specifics. * Publishers Weekly *
Knausgaard closes his quartet of autobiographical meditations on
the seasons in an appropriately verdant and optimistic fashion.
. . 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 *
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