num_pages: 254
description:  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 strange that you exist but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. 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 my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months I will 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 for granted or as given. 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. Startling compassionate and exquisitely beautiful Knausgaard's writing is like nothing else. Somehow he shows the world as it really is at once mundane and sublime.
language: English
title: Winter
publisher: Penguin Press