Boyhood Island

Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Guardian 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.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Knausgaard Karl Ove, Karl Ove Knausgard, Karl O. Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgård
• Assisted by: Don Bartlett (Translation), Bartlett Don (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780099581499
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958149-9
• No. of pages: 490
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 366 g
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Min kamp; My Struggle; Das autobiographische Projekt; Knausgaard; My Struggle; Knausgaard; Das autobiographische Projekt
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Norwegische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Biographical, Norway, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1970 to c 1979, Biographical fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Norway