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An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove KnausgaardAn 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

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These controversial autobiographical novels have sparked great debate about whether he goes too far in exposing the private lives of his friends and family, including his ex-wife. This follows A Death In The Family.

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'Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking' Observer 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. 'A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape' Independent 'My favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating' Spectator

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'A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery. I can't wait for the translator to finish the last three volumes' Jonathan Lethem, Guardian 'Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle is one of the most absorbing literary projects of recent times, one that has seen the Norwegian writer dubbed the Scandinavian Proust' Spectator 'Revolutionary...addictive and hypnotic' Paris Review 'Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties, unafraid to appear na

Author Biography

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 Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

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A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking * Observer *
My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith * Spectator *
Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused *
This 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 -- Carys Davies * Metro *

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Prizes

Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 (UK)
Short-listed for Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 (UK)
Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 (UK)

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A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

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A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

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