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Karl Ove Knausgaard, a master of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, is the final volume of the Four Seasons Literary Creation Plan. In order to complete the final work of this four-season series, Knausgaard collected from everyone around him their impressions of summer: ice cubes, lawns, currants, barbecues, butterflies, ice cream... He vividly interpreted them and once again showed us a world in a literary sense. These reflections are interspersed with the diary recording the growth of my daughter and the daily life of the family, just like the stars that adorn our common night sky. With broad strokes and intimate and sincere emotional expressions, Knausgaard re-excavates his childhood memories and reflects on his relationship with his father, family and even the world. This cleverly echoes the first three volumes and evokes our resonance with the world in all the detailed descriptions.

Arne and Tove took their children to summer vacation in South Norway. When driving at night, hundreds of crabs gathered on the road in front of him; their friend Egil was divorced and lived alone in a holiday house on a nearby island, and temporarily needed to take care of his ten-year-old son for a week; the pastor Katrin was bored with her marriage. She had just returned from a business trip and was about to host a funeral for a man she met at the airport - and the funeral was arranged ten days ago; supermarket cashier Aislin returned to her rental house When he was about to fall asleep in the attic where he lived, someone knocked on the door frantically for help; nurse Zolfai assisted the doctor in extracting organs from a patient who had been declared brain-dead. After cutting open the patient's body, the electrocardiogram reappeared beating; reporter Jorstein hung out in the bar after get off work, and after receiving news from friends, he set off alone to the scene of the murder of a death metal band; his wife Tirid was a nurse in a mental hospital, and on the night she was on night shift, a patient escaped from the hospital. Following "Mein Kampf", this is the first in Knausgaard's latest novel series. This allegorical work traces the lives of nine characters who are related to each other. It outlines mysterious and strange events based on daily details, and explores important philosophical themes: death, faith and despair at the rhythm of a suspenseful narrative.