In 2014 it had sold nearly 500,000 copies in Norway, or one copy for every nine Norwegian adults, and was published in 22 languages. 'A masterpiece.My Struggle is a six-book autobiographical series by Karl Ove Knausgård outlining the "banalities and humiliations of his life", his private pleasures, and his dark thoughts the first of the series was published in 2009.
A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief. Its depiction of a family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read in years' Observer
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