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The third volume --the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States--in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.

A family of four--mother, father, and two boys--move to the south coast of Norway,... Read Full Overview

A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard... Read Full Overview

Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward, pausing and then starting unexpectedly. This third volume of My Struggle has a narration that goes in many directions with spasmodic accuracy that becomes a spectacular exercise of autobiographical realty... Read Full Overview

"Childhood flies by at a speed that can never be matched by other stages of life." Live your childhood again and remember the person you were when you were young, unable to resist, humiliated, but loving the world with all your strength, a hotly debated writer who is a candidate... Read Full Overview