![]() “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. My Struggle (a slippery, self-ironising title) is composed of small incidents, some described at great length 50 pages at a childrens party, more about a teenage plan to hide some cans of. More real than reality.” - La Repubblica (Italy) “Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled.” - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) ![]() I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it.” - Dagsavisen (Norway) There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book.” - James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year) 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. In the first of his six autobiographical novels, Knausgaard writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father’s death. Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties. ![]()
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