Boyhood Island
My Struggle Book 3
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Pub Date 20 Mar 2014 | Archive Date 31 Mar 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.
In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.
‘Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday… Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel’
Times Literary Supplement
A Note From the Publisher
Available worldwide exclusing USA and The Philippines.
Advance Praise
Praise for A Man in Love:
Packed with existential angst and fierce insights - Big Issue in the North
Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking - Observer
Shocking and compulsive - Dazed & Confused
Rare and ruthless... this deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times - Guardian
By closely examining his world, he gives readers impetus to reflect on their lives. He reveals plenty about himself and his loved ones, but the people we learn most about from My Struggle are ourselves - Independent
Maddening and fascinating - Daily Telegraph
Marketing Plan
The books have topped the bestseller charts in Norway, even briefly outselling the Bible
Knausgaard's works have won numerous awards, including the Brage Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Prize
A Death in the Family and A Man in Love were published to great critical acclaim in the UK and throughout the world
These controversial novels have sparked debate wherever they are published
The My Struggle cycle is comparable to J.M. Coetzee's trilogy of autobiographical novels; Boyhood Island is Knausgaard's Boyhood
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448155842 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
