Winter

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The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard’s unborn daughter

2 December – It is odd that you exist, but that you do not know anything about what the world looks like. It’s odd that there’s a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one’s skin. It’s odd that there’s a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it’s going to. In only some months, I can see you for the first time.

In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays–to name just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar objects and ideas he fills with new meaning, taking nothing with no consideration or as given. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to go back, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze.

Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely beautiful, Knausgaard’s writing is like nothing else. In some way, he shows the world as it truly is, at once mundane and sublime.

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