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A 2015 New York Times Book Review Notable Book

The fourth installment in the eagerly awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series.

Book Four finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove in a tiny fishing village in Northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove—in the company of the Håfjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, joking together in close quarters—confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world—sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful—where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter. In Book Four, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be.

Editorial Reviews

“Knausgaard’s command of the traditional novelistic procedure is the reason these books are the opposite of dull…He feeds in atmosphere in just the right amounts; his pacing is flawless. How wonderful to read an experimental novel that fires every nerve ending while summoning in the reader the sheer sense of how amazing it is to be alive, on this planet and no other.” —New York Times Book Review

“An entertaining portrait of the artist as a young lout.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Unapologetically crude, this entry is the funniest and least self-conscious in the series to date; there’s a humorous momentum propelling the narrative as Karl Ove attempts to lose his virginity.” —Publishers Weekly

“Knausgaard’s brooding Scandinavian obsessiveness has a way of getting under a reader’s skin, not because his life is so exciting and eventful—it isn’t—but because it’s so familiar. He writes a clear prose that transforms ordinary events, detailing the span of his life with such directness that everything seems to be happening in real time.” —Washington Post

“The sheer accumulation of minutiae becomes hypnotic…My Struggle is addictive, whether the narrator is frying onions, engaging in drinking bouts that end in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, or meditating on evil.” —Wall Street Journal

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Author Bio: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard is an award‑winning Norwegian author whose autobiographical novel cycle, My Struggle, spans six volumes which have been translated into over fifteen languages. This international success was coined “Scandinavia’s greatest literary event” by Helsingin Sanomat and sold more than 600,000 copies in Norway alone. His debut novel, Out of the World, won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, and his second novel, A Time for Everything, was longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction/Literary
Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.	Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:	13	CDs:	1
Runtime:	16.21
ISBN:	9781664437067	ISBN:	9781664703926
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

My Struggle, Book 4

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