Winter
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399563334 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. About the Author Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears
A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears. . Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second
Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once mundane and sublime.. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. But soon it will. New life is on the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. It's strange that there is 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 strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handful of his subjects. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. These oh-so-familiar