Winter Paperback by Karl Ove Knausgaard Illustrated by Lars Lerin

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2019-11-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345811073
• Item Weight: 362.88 grams
• Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.0 x 0.7 cm

The second volume in Knaugsaard's autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to unborn daughter.

In Winter, the second installment in this quartet, we rejoin Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. Familiar objects and ideas fill with new meaning. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knaus-gaard shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime. 

With illustrations by Lars Lerin.

“Winter reaches at emotions and common experiences thatvlay dusty in all of us.” —Chicago Review of Books

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.

LARS LERIN was born and raised in Munkfors, Värmland. He studied at the school of Gerlesborg 1974-75 and at the Department of Fine Arts, Valand 1980-84. Lars Lerin is considered to be one of Scandinavia's leading artists in watercolour technique. He has had solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in art museums and galleries in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Germany, Norway and the United States. Lars Lerin's work is exhibited in county councils and municipalities in Sweden and Norway.