Boyhood Island

Name: Boyhood Island
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780099581499
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My Struggle Book 3

By Karl Ove Knausgaard and Karl Ove Knausgård

Series: My Struggle

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In Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, the author vividly recounts his childhood in a small Norwegian town, exploring the universal themes of family, friendship, and the formation of identity. His narrative blends personal memories with an introspective look at the child's evolving perception of the world. Through this deeply personal and evocative reflection, Knausgaard captures the essence and challenges of growing up.
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You might like this book if you enjoy immersive and reflective storytelling that delves into the complexities of childhood memory and family dynamics. The narrative offers a candid and deeply personal exploration of growing up, making it appealing for readers who appreciate introspective and character-driven fiction.

Boyhood Island

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

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

Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying.

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

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

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

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.

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Karl Ove Knausgaard's Boyhood Island is praised for its visceral and immersive narrative style, capturing the heart's depth and making everyday moments sublime. The book vividly revives the emotions of early youth, balancing joy and anxiety, and is compared to Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha for its captivating and addictive quality. Critics highlight the author's detailed attention to emotional nuances, likening it to Proust, and acknowledge its significance as part of a major literary achievement in My Struggle.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099581499

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 September 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Contributors:

Translated by Don Bartlett
Translated by Don Bartlett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 364g

Pages: 496

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Fiction General Fiction Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl Ove Knausgård Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: My Struggle

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.