A Man in Love
My Struggle Book 2
Published on 3. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-09-955517-9 (ISBN)
Description
An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *
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
* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *
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
Reviews / Votes
Knausgaard...is a master of capturing the mundane. By paying particular attention to the minutia which makes up a life, he awards it the respect it deserves... unputdownable * Wallpaper * A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking * Observer * My favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith * Spectator * Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused * This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive -- Carys Davies * Metro *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-955517-9 (9780099555179)
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Additional editions
E-Book
04/2013
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€8.99
Available for download
Persons
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.