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A Death in the Family

Knausgaard, Karl Ove more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Publication Date: 15/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. "A Death in the Family" is a Proustian exploration of his past, in which Knausgaard creates a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. "A Death in the Family" is a profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.