Autumn

Written as a letter to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to introduce her to the world she will soon enter—not through grand declarations, but through the small, often overlooked details that make up a life.

Each short essay, written daily, captures a fragment of existence: his wife, the rain, sparkling eyes, loaded silence. With piercing clarity and a father’s quiet awe, Knausgaard transforms the ordinary into the luminous. He reflects not only on what surrounds him in the Swedish countryside, but on what it means to be human, to be a parent, to offer the world to someone you love before they can even open their eyes.

Deeply personal and emotional, Autumn is a love letter in pieces—a way for a father to make sense of the world for his child, and in doing so, for himself. It is a book about beginnings, attention, and the infinite ways we find meaning in the everyday.

A New York Times Bestseller.