Spring: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 3) - Softcover

Knausgaard, Karl Ove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784703281 ISBN 13: 9781784703288

Publisher: Vintage, 2022

Synopsis

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.

'Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious' Daily Telegraph

Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quartet, Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life's darkest moments and what can sustain us through them.

'Fall in love with the world, Knausgaard enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it' New York Times

About this title

About the Author

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 sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.

Anna Bjerger (Illustrator)
Anna Bjerger was born in 1973 and is a Swedish artist who lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland, 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.

From the Back Cover

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.

I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for.

Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. With this striking novel in the Seasons quartet, Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life’s darkest moments and what can sustain us through them.

Utterly gripping and brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard’s famously pensive and honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking familial trauma and the emotional epicentre of this singular literary series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784703281
• ISBN 13: 9781784703288
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Bjerger Anna
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192