Entirely ingenious. Knausgaard isnt afraid to be gauche, anxious, vulgar, inconsistent, portentous, sentimental. He makes virtues of what, in literary novels, are often counted faults. And he makes them moving. * Daily Telegraph * Spring features Knausgaard unbound. . . the books blunt, unforced telling brings the larger projects meaning into sudden, brilliant focus Knausgaard has assembled this living encyclopedia for his daughter with a wild and desperate sort of love, as a way to forge her attachment to the world, to fasten her to it... Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it. * The New York Times * Heavy but not heavy-handed, this true noir of the North is dark, bleak and moody. This story about life thats set over the course of single day will move and disturb in equal measure. * Monocle * An unexpected treat A lovely piece of work. * Sunday Telegraph * Oodles of musing on life and art thats by turns meandering and electrifying. * Metro * [ Karl Ove Knausgaard] observes a subject so closely, mining so far into its essence its quiddity that the observations transcend banality and become compelling. -- Peter Murphy * Irish Times * For anyone who is curious about this writer... Spring makes for an excellent introduction. It is the shortest book he has ever written, but it is all muscle, a generous slice of a thoughtful, ruminative life. * The Washington Post * If you still havent tried Knausgaard... try Spring. Its poignant and beautiful youll get him and get why some of us have gone crazy for him. * Los Angeles Review of Books * A radical, thrilling departure from the first two volumes of his Seasons Quartet... this moving novel stylistically resembles his acclaimed My Struggle series... A remarkably honest take on the strange linkages between love, loss, laughter, and self-destruction, a perfect distillation of Knausgaards unique gifts. * Publishers Weekly * Knausgaards assets are on full display, including his precise writing style and his unerring sense of detail it is all muscle, a generous slice of thoughtful, ruminative life. -- Rodney Welch * Washington Post *
