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My Struggle: Book 4
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My Struggle: Book 4
Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing village in northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove--in the company of the Håfjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world--sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter. In Book 4, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be.
Review(s):
Long-listed Amazon.com Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed Washington Post Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year (2015)
ISBN: 9780374534172
Author(s): Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing village in northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove--in the company of the Håfjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world--sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter. In Book 4, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be.
Review(s):
Long-listed Amazon.com Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed Washington Post Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2015), Long-listed The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year (2015)
ISBN: 9780374534172