One of the Guardian 's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century an addictive and searingly honest
novel about childhood family and grief. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with
painful honesty. He writes 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. 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. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the
struggles great and small that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work
written as if the author's very life were at stake. 'A masterpiece... Its depiction of a
family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read in years'
Observer
