My Struggle My Struggle: Book 2, Book 2, (Paperback)

from kidzdoc

In Book Two of this acclaimed series of autobiographical novels, subtitled "A Man in Love", Knausgaard is living in Bergen, Norway with his wife Tonje and their two young children. Although his family adores him he feels trapped, and after his debut novel "Ute av verden" ("Out of the World") was ...

from bobbieharv

Ah I just loved this book, even more than the first volume. Read it as my daughter was in the last stages of pregnancy and had a difficult delivery - so the descriptions of his wife's labor really resonated. It's amazing to me the way his writing moves from minute quotidian details to philosophic...

from AlisonY

I owe my husband an apology. For the past week I've been having an affair; a turbulent, crazy love affair with a complicated, intelligent, philosophising Norwegian. The affair has left space for neither domestic chores nor conversation. It has been all consuming. And now it's over. I feel bereft ...

from m.belljackson

Karl Ove takes one right to the center of what it means to be him, for better, worse, or worser. His description of his reaction to taking his 8 month old child to a Rhythm Time class is so painfully honestly remarkable that it makes one laugh to think about the sheer anti-PC of it and him. This ...

from jonfaith

I wandered beneath the sun-dappled shade from the trees, surrounded by the warm fragrances of the forest, thinking that I was in the middle of my life. Not life as an age, not halfway along life's path, but in the middle of my existence. My heart trembled.Rather late in this volume, Karl Ove refl...