BOYHOOD ISLAND - MY STRUGGLE (PAPERBACK) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days An autobiographical story of childhood and family from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard. 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. Features Summary 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... Author Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author), Don Bartlett (Translator) Publisher Vintage Release date 20141001 Pages 490 ISBN 0-09-958149-3 ISBN 13 978-0-09-958149-9