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A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 - Knausgaard (Paperback)
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A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 - Knausgaard (Paperback)

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Paperback 496 Pages / Published: 07/03/2013
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Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with exhilarating honesty 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. A Death in the Family is the first of the six books in the My Struggle cycle. In it Knausgaard has created a universal story which is gripping, hugely readable and written as if the author's very life were at stake. Another international sensation from the publishers of HHhH, 1Q84 and Coetzee's Summertime.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099555162
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard shot to fame with A Death in the Family, a blend of memoir and fiction that narrates – with extraordinary candour – the events of his own early life including recollections about his father’s death. The book became the catalyst for an internationally bestselling series, collectively titled Min Kamp (‘My Struggle’). He is also the author of the seasonal series of novels, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and the non-fiction volume, Home and Away.

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“A brave and immersive book”

This is a forensic fictionalised account of part of the author's adolescence, and of coping with his father's death and its dispiriting and degrading aftermath. There's a mass of detail here, together... More

Paperback edition
3rd March 2015
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“Introspective”

A bit of a curate's egg, but rather too introspective even for my liking. There are some good descriptive passages, particularly those that give a sense of how the snow pervades everything in Norway. Being of a... More

Paperback edition
16th June 2014
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Ilona

“Uninteresting”

I`m not sure how I really feel about this book. I`ve never been too keen on autobiographies and this novel is certainly that. I was given this book to review, but most probably I wouldn`t of picked it up myself.
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Paperback edition
13th May 2014
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