An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.

In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.

'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel'
Times Literary Supplement

An autobiographical story of childhood and family 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
Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel -- Thomas Meaney * Times Literary Supplement *
Compelling and addictive... One of the most grown-up works of fiction we have -- Hermione Hoby * Observer *
Powerfully hypnotic and addictive... a Norwegian Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha -- Theo Tait * Sunday Times *
My Struggle is already the most significant literary achievement of the 21st century and we still have three volumes to go -- Matt Thorne * Sunday Express *
Knausgaard's Proustian attention to detail and scrupulous analysis of emotional nuance is almost maddening - but ultimately magnificent * Vogue *
Knausgaard continues masterfully -- Malcolm Forbes * Literary Review *
One of the most anticipated books of the year (the decade) -- Emily Stokes * Financial Times *


Awards
Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780099581499
Author Karl Ove Knausgaard
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm