A Death in the Family

My Struggle Book 1

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Arrow
18 March 2013

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: My Struggle

An addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood and grief from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard

One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He 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.

When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake.

'A masterpiece... Its depiction of a family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read in years' Observer

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780099555162
ISBN 10: 0099555166
Series: My Struggle
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 18 March 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize. His second novel, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family was awarded the prestigious Brage Award, and is being heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.

Reviews for A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1

[A Death in the Family] should be read for its blazing account of a feared father set on self-destruction, the boredom and bewilderment of adolescence, and its flashes of sheet brilliance -- Catherine Taylor * i * A masterpiece... Meticulously detailed, harrowing, oddly beautiful, its depiction of a family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read in years * Observer, Books of the Year * The best book I read this year...full of artistic, moral and technical daring * Guardian, Books of the Year * Intense and vital...ceaselessly compelling...superb * New Yorker * This suburban epic, electrifying in candour and eloquence, feels streets ahead of the comparable Jonathan Franzen * Independent, Books of the Year * Incredibly moving * Irish Times, Books of the Year *