![]() A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake. In A Death in the Family Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. ![]() In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. ![]() A searingly honest, addictive and controversial read. An international phenomenon, which has been declared a masterpiece everywhere it has been published. ![]()
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