Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/11/2021
ISBN: 9781784703264
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 205mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £10.99
The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter
Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world – from twilight to the migration of birds, from Van Gogh to forgiveness – with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark.
With artwork by Vanessa Baird
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/11/2021
ISBN: 9781784703264
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 205mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £10.99
Diverse and delightful… These sharp little essays capture the wonder of things with photographic immediacy… This is an inspiring, surprising collection
Brilliantly conveys the sense you get, as a prospective parent, that the world is brand new… It’s all beautifully done.
In Autumn, a lyrical cabaret beside the grand opera of the My Struggle books, taboo memories and forbidden feelings disrupt the grown-up project of a compendium of fatherly wisdom... Autumn glows with a radiant attachment to 'the world, as it is'... From sunshine to head-lice, it celebrates the 'dizzying intensity of being'.
Quietly illuminates Knausgaard's profound gift for making the reader see the world in fresh and unpredictable ways.
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.