Summer Paperback by Karl Ove Knausgaard Illustrated by Anselm Kiefer

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2019-11-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345811134
• Item Weight: 549.99 grams
• Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.04 x 1.1 cm

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer.

The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter, weaving them into a moving conclusion. He mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father, documenting his family’s life in rural Sweden. The pains of family and parenthood come alive with uncommon feeling.

“Engrossing. . . . Knausgaard’s prose evokes universal themes from intimate specifics.” —Publisher's Weekly, starred review

About the 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 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.