Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.
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 Morning Star, Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the
Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.
Anselm Kiefer (Illustrator)
Anselm Kiefer's body of work comprises paintings, sculptures,
installations, artist books, and works on paper such as
watercolours, woodcuts, collages, and photographs. Fusing art and
literature, Kiefer engages taboo and controversial issues from
recent history as well as the ancient myth of life, death, and the
cosmos. He brings to light the importance of the sacred and
spiritual, myth and memory.
[Knausgaard is] endlessly curious about the world… [and] his
perceptions of it are so particular.
*Observer*
[Knausgaard] brings it all alive in his prose, makes it shimmer.
Whether intellectually parsing for meaning or playing this
existential video game of political turmoil, horror, and heartache,
his writing flows easily from quiet, thoughtful engagement to
ecstatic communion with the world… He may be done with this
quartet, the My Struggle series, and autofiction altogether, but I
still want more of it. That kind of passionate literary intimacy is
rare.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
Engrossing… Knausgaard’s prose evokes universal themes from
intimate specifics.
*Publishers Weekly*
Knausgaard closes his quartet of autobiographical meditations on
the seasons in an appropriately verdant and optimistic fashion. . .
While interrogating the nature of storytelling, he’s priming
readers for a powerful, straightforward yarn. Breezy reading that’s
also a commentary on breezy reading. Some trick.
*Kirkus*
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