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Boyhood Island
My Struggle Book 3
Series: My Struggle
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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.
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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Series: My Struggle
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A Death in the Family
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard is an unforgettable and fiercely honest exploration of childhood, family, and loss. One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, this introspective novel delves deeply into the author's own life experiences, offering a raw and compelling narrative that captures universal truths. The novel begins with the stark and...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A Man in Love
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...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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. 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...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Some Rain Must Fall
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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.
Book Details
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
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.
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Autumn
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn is a love letter about the world, written in short, dazzling pieces by a father to his unborn daughter. The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, it is a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter. "Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday -
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Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family. Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. In the summer of 1985, Kristian Hadeland leaves his life in Norway behind and moves to London to...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious - Daily Telegraph Spring follows a father and...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Nine lives are brought together by the mysterious appearance of a huge star in the sky in this exhilarating novel from the international bestseller. Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller. Addictive Daily Telegraph Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling New York...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday -
The Third Realm
‘Ferociously readable... I still can't get enough’ The Times If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Inadvertent
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard. "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer, yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. For the...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
In the Land of the Cyclops
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops marks Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. These brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction. In this collection, Knausgaard discusses...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys, and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. Moving... A circadian novel, set over one day... Entirely ingenious - Daily Telegraph Spring follows a father and...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn is a love letter about the world, written in short, dazzling pieces by a father to his unborn daughter. The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, it is a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter. "Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday -
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From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughter. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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