{"product_id":"summer-9780399563416","title":"Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects--mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few--he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion. At his most voluminous since \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle, \u003c\/i\u003e his epic sensational series, Knausgaard writes for his daughter, striving to make ready and give meaning to a world at once indifferent and achingly beautiful. In his hands, the overwhelming joys and insoluble pains of family and parenthood come alive with uncommon feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e's first novel, \u003ci\u003eOut of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, \u003ci\u003eA Time for Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, was widely acclaimed. The \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared, and the first volume was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnselm Kiefer\u003c\/b\u003e (1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503325810962,"sku":"9780399563416","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7f216b7-17b1-46f6-a58b-1cd8f39b0104.jpg?v=1730788475","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/summer-9780399563416","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}