Autumn

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The New York Times bestseller.

“This book is full of wonders…Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard’s patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted.”
—The New York Times

From the writer of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, probably the most masters of recent literature and a genius of commentary and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons.

28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the type of world You’re going to be born into. And I know nothing about you…

I need to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You’re going to come to see it in your own way, You’re going to experience things for yourself and live a life of your own, so of course it is primarily for my own sake that I am doing this: showing you the world, little one, makes my life worth living.

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to anticipate of the world. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have turn into his trademark. He describes with acute sensitivity daily life with his wife and children in rural Sweden, drawing upon memories of his own childhood to give an inimitably tender perspective on the precious and unique bond between parent and child. The sun, wasps, jellyfish, eyes, lice–the stuff of on a regular basis life is the fodder for his art. Nothing is too small or too vast to escape his attention. This beautifully illustrated book is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars. Through close commentary of the objects and phenomena around him, Knausgaard shows us how vast, unknowable and wondrous the world is.

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