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Originally published in Norwegian under the title Om våren by Forlaget Oktober, Oslo, 2016
English-language edition first published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2018
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 © 2016 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Translation copyright © 2018 by Ingvild Burkey
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Illustrations by Anna Bjerger
Excerpt from Private Confessions by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate (Arcade Publishing, 1997).
Excerpt from“London Calling”written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones.
ISBN 9780399563386 (paperback)
THE LIBRARY O F CONGRESS HAS CATAL OGED THE HARDCOVER E DITION AS FOLLOWS :
Names: Knausgard, Karl Ove, 1968– author. | Bjerger, Anna illustrator. | Burkey, Ingvild, 1967– translator.
Title: Spring / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; with illustrations by Anna Bjerger ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey.
Other titles: Om vêaren. English
Description: New York, : Penguin Press, 2018. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018006367 (print) | LCCN 2018011738 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399563379 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399563362 (hardcover)
Subjects: | BISAC: Fiction / Biographical. | Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs. | Biography & Autobiography / Literary.
Classification: LCC PT8951.21.N38 (ebook) | LCC PT8951.21.N38 O5513 2018 (print) | DDC 839.823/74—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006367
Cover design: Darren Haggar
Cover art: Anna Bjerger
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