Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.
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
the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star,
The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in
thirty-five languages.
Anna Bjerger (Illustrator)
Anna Bjerger was born in 1973 and is a Swedish artist who lives and
works outside lmhult in Sm land, 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.
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.
*Daily 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*
An unexpected treat… A lovely piece of work.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Oodles of musing on life and art that’s by turns meandering and
electrifying.
*Metro*
[Karl Ove Knausgaard] observes a subject so closely, mining so far
into its essence – its quiddity – that the observations transcend
banality and become compelling.
*Irish Times*
For anyone who is curious about this writer... Spring makes for an
excellent introduction. It is the shortest book he has ever
written, but it is all muscle, a generous slice of a thoughtful,
ruminative life.
*The Washington Post*
If you still haven’t tried Knausgaard... try Spring. It’s poignant
and beautiful… you’ll get him and get why some of us have gone
crazy for him.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
A radical, thrilling departure from the first two volumes of his
Seasons Quartet... this moving novel stylistically resembles his
acclaimed My Struggle series... A remarkably honest take on the
strange linkages between love, loss, laughter, and
self-destruction, a perfect distillation of Knausgaard’s unique
gifts.
*Publishers Weekly*
Knausgaard’s assets are on full display, including his precise
writing style and his unerring sense of detail … it is all muscle,
a generous slice of thoughtful, ruminative life.
*Washington Post*
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