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 Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, 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
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An unexpected treat... A lovely piece of work. * Sunday Telegraph
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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. -- Peter Murphy * 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. -- Rodney
Welch * Washington Post *
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