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.

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 Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Karl Ove Knausgard, Karl O. Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgård
• Assisted by: Don Bartlett (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