A Free Digital Download from Boyhood Island, third instalment in the international sensation, My Struggle. "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 this passage, Karl Ove is desperately looking forward to attending his swimming course with his classmates. That is, until his mother forgets to buy him the mandatory swimming cap ahead of time. 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.
- ISBN10 1473512026
- ISBN13 9781473512023
- Publish Date 8 March 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 July 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 50
- Language English