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2017., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: 839.82 K67a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A love letter to his unborn daughter, Autumn is for every reader who thinks about what the world holds for their child, and is the first book in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons. Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world she will soon come into. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the wonder and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. This beautifully illustrated book is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars. Through close observation of the objects and phenomena around him, Karl Ove shows us how vast, unknowable and wondrous the world is. The second volume in the autobiographical quartet, Winter, will be published in January 2018. Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård is the author of Out of the World, A Time for Everything and A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels. The author now lives in Osterlen, Sweden."--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Kna Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in southern Norway. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar, the journalist Jostein is out on the town, and his wife Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out? Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news subsides, and life goes on, but not quite as before, for unusual phenomena begin to occur on the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August, the characters the novel follows will each understand what is happening differently, and all face new struggles in their own lives.
