An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write.

This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too.

'Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking' Observer

An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard

About the Author
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes The Morning Star, Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Reviews
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking * Observer *
My favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith * Spectator *
Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused *
This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive -- Carys Davies * Metro *


Awards
Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 (UK) and Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 (UK). Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780099555179
Author Karl Ove Knausgaard
Format Paperback
Page Count 672
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 484g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 33mm