Summer: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 4)

I love this author's work and Summer is no exception. Certain chapters have stuck with me like glue. The bike trip between father and son in particular, but there are others.

Like the other 3 seasons in Knausgaard's 'quartet' of books written for his young daughter (not even born when he began writing this series!), this book contains his typical insights about life, one's experience of it, etc. By sharing so intimately about his own experiences, it somehow enriches our own lives, making us realize just how precious this life is, and to enjoy it as it comes. To be ever mindful of just how miraculous this gift is, in its very ordinariness. Highly recommend ALL of his works.

Another beautiful book by Knausgaard with unique insights on the everyday and an interesting segue between historical and contemporary fiction.

This book represents the natural progression and end to Knausgaard's season cycle. It is clear in this book he has mastered the craft of writing transcendant essays on the most mundane of things. Somehow finding a way to relate the nature of grass to poets and artists, along with countless other observations which could be made by no other writer.The illustrations by Anselm Kiefer make the book a beautiful object on its own.

This man is a genius. I adore him already bought for other people and rave about him.