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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099555179Number of pages: 672Weight: 484 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
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A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity,domesticity and the artist's itch to escapeCompelling,rewarding,maddening...breathtakingMy favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinatingShocking and compulsiveThis 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
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard shot to fame with A Death in the Family,a blend of memoir and fiction that narrates - with extraordinary candour - the events of his own early life including recollections about his father's death. The book became the catalyst for an internationally bestselling series,collectively titled Min Kamp ('My Struggle'). He is also the author of the seasonal series of novels,Spring,Summer,Autumn,Winter and the non-fiction volume,Home and Away.
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