Overview
Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one father's personal experience, and somehow, every father's too. Selected from the book A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series- Desire by Haruki Murakami Babies by Anne Enright Eating by Nigella Lawson Language by Xiaolu Guo
Full Product Details
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 11.00cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.073kg
ISBN: 9781784872663
ISBN 10: 1784872660
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 08 June 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape Independent
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape * Independent * Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world's most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human... They look good and read well. That's win/win in our book. * Stylist *
Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world's most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human... They look good and read well. That's win/win in our book. * Stylist * A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape * Independent *
Author Information
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 series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages.
