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    Winter

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard

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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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9780399563348
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    Karl Ove Knausgaard

    Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. My Struggle has won countless international literary awards and has been translated into at least fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.

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    • 5/5
      Such magnificant photographs which best illustrated the essence of winter. This book is an excellent source of information for children of all ages. Its a simple read with photos of the different species of biirds found in its natural habitat.Experiencing such purity of nature is a stress releaver. Nature in its full glory of natural beauty is incomparable.
    • 4/5
      Short little essays and a couple of letters addressed to his daughter who was in the process of preparing for her birth musing on all sorts of little issues one encounters in life, people the author knows, and philosophical disquisitions on matters great and small. This is my first encounter with Knausgaard and I find his style reassuring, even when he touches on subjects which an edge. He touches on life and death but it is all basically optimistic, wry rather than rueful. I am inclined to pick up the volume which precedes this one in his "Seasons" series and might then consider whether to tackle his major series of books "My Struggle."
    • 5/5
      Here we have Knausgaard's second, one for each season, and I'm still totally captivated by almost all of these short pieces on things and concepts of his everyday world. The books contain his essays in which he is explaining the world to his unborn − well, she was born while he was writing this volume − and I love them. Some of the subjects seem a little lame, but his mind works in ways that rarely disappoint me. There are some authors that you trust so much that you just put yourself in their hands and follow then wherever they go, Karl Ove has my trust many times over.
    • 3/5
      Evidence that Knausgaard is a fine "noticer of things" but sometimes his forensic detail overwhelms rather than informs.
    • 5/5
      I was very disappointed by Autumn, but with Winter my favorite author redeemed himself. The best essays still are the personal ones (and I'm still waiting what seems like forever for the last volume of My Struggle), but most of the others seemed less dry. Can't wait to read Spring, which just came out.
    • 3/5
      This book is about how different animals are affected during the cold winter months. It talks about how they have to adapt to survive in the new environment. I think this book would be good for elementary teachers to have on their shelves for its pictures but not for its contents. I rated the book 3 out of 5 because I didn’t feel it would be a good resource for teacher to teach from.
    • 5/5
      Winter means sledding and snowman-building fun for children. But for the animals trying to keep warm, it brings thick coyote-fur coats and feather-fluffing birds. This lovely picture book shows the wonders of the natural world as the photographer catches swans, weasels, mountain sheep, owls, rabbits, mice, deer, moose, and more in the winter fields, A simple text accompanies the photographs in this picture book designed for young readers in preschool through third grade. A Lexile Level of AD650L makes this an adult-directed book to share with young readers. With its magnificent color photographs, this is a not-too-be-missed treasure for readers young and old.Highly recommended.