A Death in the Family
My Struggle Book 1
$23.68
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
18 March 2013
Summary
An addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood and grief.
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 deter…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099555162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099555166 |
| Author: | Don Bartlett, Karl Ove Knausgaard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 28mm |
| Series: | My Struggle |
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[ 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
[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 *
About The Author
Don Bartlett
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 sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.
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