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A Man in Love

My Struggle Book 2

Karl Ove Knausgaard author Don Bartlett translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Oct '13

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An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write.

This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too.

'Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking' Observer

Knausgaard…is a master of capturing the mundane. By paying particular attention to the minutia which makes up a life, he awards it the respect it deserves… unputdownable * Wallpaper *
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking * Observer *
My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith * Spectator *
Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused *
This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive -- Carys Davies * Metro *

  • Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 (UK)
  • Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK)

ISBN: 9780099555179

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 33mm

Weight: 484g

672 pages