An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.
It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write.
This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too.
'Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking' Observer
'A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery. I can't wait for the translator to finish the last three volumes' Jonathan Lethem,
Guardian 'Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel
My Struggle is one of the most absorbing literary projects of recent times, one that has seen the Norwegian writer dubbed the Scandinavian Proust'
Spectator 'Revolutionary?addictive and hypnotic'
Paris Review 'Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties, unafraid to appear naïve or awkward'
New Yorker 'Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible' Boyd Tonkin
Independent 'There is no doubt that
My Struggle has been bought at a price, both for the author and his loved ones, but for the reader, there is the thrill of confronting a passionate writer who is prepared to take such risks, to try to show his face as it is, rather than as he wishes it were.' Hari Kunzru,
Guardian 'The locations and details may be unique, but it is Knausgaard's gift to make of this unsparing specificity something universal'
The Times 'Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good, and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not want to'
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