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The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series has been hailed as "perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times" (The Guardian)"Beautifully human... Being drawn into Knausgaard's world is an ineluctable pleasure." - The TimesFresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing. All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation, and to his own great distress, he develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. And all the while the shadow of his father looms large."Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not want to." - The New York Times Book Review"The narrator may be intellectually earnest, an aesthete who mediates on the sublime, but he is also a hapless fool, prone to Chaplines

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Author

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781448155859

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.17 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14