Autumn By Karl Ove Knausgaard

Autumn

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

As a parent we all want to give our children the world. This book, the first in a series based on the four seasons, is one father’s attempt. In the author’s note to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes,

Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of world you will be born into. And I know nothing about you. I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your own way, you will experience things for yourself and live a life of your own, so of course it is primarily for my own sake that I am doing this: Showing you the world, little one, makes my life worth living.

From loose teeth to chewing come Knausgaard will have you looking at the experiences you share with your own children in vivid detail and reliving past with new and deeper meaning. After reading this book it may transform the way you perceive your life as a parent.