An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.
In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.
'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel'
Times Literary Supplement
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Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible * Independent * Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel * Times Literary Supplement * Compelling and addictive... One of the most grown-up works of fiction we have * Observer * Powerfully hypnotic and addictive... a Norwegian Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha * Sunday Times * My Struggle is already the most significant literary achievement of the 21st century and we still have three volumes to go * Sunday Express * Knausgaard's Proustian attention to detail and scrupulous analysis of emotional nuance is almost maddening - but ultimately magnificent * Vogue * Knausgaard continues masterfully * Literary Review * One of the most anticipated books of the year (the decade) * Financial Times * His devotees gobble each new volume with an eagerness previously reserved only for box sets of Borgen * Daily Telegraph * Knausgaard transforms the personal and mundane into the universal and perennially significant... There is such depth of feeling beneath the vibrant exterior, such sense of the goodness present in human existence * Spectator *
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978-1-4481-5584-2 (9781448155842)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.
