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Originally published in Norwegian under the title Om vintern by Forlaget Oktober, Oslo, 2015

English-language edition first published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2017

First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018

Published in Penguin Books 2019

Copyright © 2015 by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Translation copyright © 2017 by Ingvild Burkey

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Illustrations by Lars Lerin

Excerpt from“The Gold Rooster”by Olav H. Hauge, translated by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Robert Bly. From the volume The Dream We Carry by Olav H. Hauge (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).

ISBN 9780399563331 (hardcover)

ISBN 9780399563355 (paperback)

ISBN 9780399563348 (ebook)

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