‘It's unbelievable … I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind.’ Zadie Smith
‘Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’ Rachel Cusk, Guardian
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.
- ISBN10 1846557224
- ISBN13 9781846557224
- Publish Date 20 March 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 July 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Harvill Secker
- Format Hardcover (UK Trade)
- Pages 496
- Language English