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My Struggle, Book 3

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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The third volume --the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States--in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.

A family of four--mother, father, and two boys--move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet.

Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, My Struggle: Book 3 gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publish Date: Apr 28th, 2015
  • Pages: 464
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.40in - 0.88lb
  • EAN: 9780374534165
  • Categories: Biographical & AutofictionLiteraryWorld Literature - Norway

About the Author

Knausgaard, Karl Ove: - Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. My Struggle has won countless international literary awards and has been translated into at least fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.
Bartlett, Don: - Don Bartlett has translated dozens of books of various genres, including several novels and short story collections by Jo Nesbø and It's Fine by Me by Per Petterson. He lives in Norfolk, England.

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Praise for this book

"Halfway through, this series is starting to look like an early-21st-century masterpiece." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)