Awards

• Commended for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014

Overview

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues--death, love, art, fear--and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

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<p> Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. -- James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year)<p> A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. -- Dagsavisen (Norway)<p> <p> Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany)<p> <p> Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. -- La Repubblica (Italy)<p> <p> I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . -- Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden)<p>

Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. <i>James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year)</i></p> A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. <i>Dagsavisen (Norway)</i></p> Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany)</i></p> Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. <i>La Repubblica (Italy)</i></p> I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . <i>Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden)</i></p>

Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. --James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. --Dagsavisen (Norway) Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. --La Repubblica (Italy) I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . --Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden) Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. Dagsavisen (Norway) Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. La Repubblica (Italy) I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden) Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. Dagsavisen (Norway) Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. La Repubblica (Italy) I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden) Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book. --James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it. -- Dagsavisen (Norway) Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled. -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality. -- La Repubblica (Italy) I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . . -- Vasterbottens-kuriren (Sweden) Out of the ashes of his childhood and the cooling cinders of his youth, Knausgaard has fashioned a memoir that burns with the heat of life. --Christopher Byrd, Barnes & Noble Review One of the more affecting and resonant books I've read in quite some time . . . What's so striking about the book is the terrifying emotional frankness with which Knausgaard confronts his own history. --Alex Balk, The Awl

<p> Out of the ashes of his childhood and the cooling cinders of his youth, Knausgaard has fashioned a memoir that burns with the heat of life. --Christopher Byrd, Barnes & Noble Review <br><br> One of the more affecting and resonant books I've read in quite some time . . . What's so striking about the book is the terrifying emotional frankness with which Knausgaard confronts his own history. --Alex Balk, The Awl

Author Information

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. My Struggle has won countless international literary awards and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in London with his wife and children. 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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