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Autumn

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784703264

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 205mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £10.99

Autumn

RELEASED 04/11/2021

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

  • ISBN: 9781784703264

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 205mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • Diverse and delightful… These sharp little essays capture the wonder of things with photographic immediacy… This is an inspiring, surprising collection

    The Times

  • Brilliantly conveys the sense you get, as a prospective parent, that the world is brand new… It’s all beautifully done.

    William Leith, Evening Standard

  • 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'.

    The Economist

  • Quietly illuminates Knausgaard's profound gift for making the reader see the world in fresh and unpredictable ways.

    Stuart Evers, The Observer

  • 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.

    Parul Sehgal, New York Times

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About the Author

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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 Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Vanessa Baird

Vanessa Baird (1963) was born in Oslo, where she now lives and works. She has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and in 2015 she won the Lorck Schive Art Prize, Norway’s biggest contemporary art prize.

Vanessa Baird

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Extracts

Father Christmas by Karl Over Knausgaard

Father Christmas is an extract from Winter, Knausgaard's collection of short essays on the wonders of life. Translated from Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey and illustrated by Lars Lerin, it's perfect for a winter night in

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