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A Man in Love: My Struggle Book 2 (My Struggle, 2)

A Man in Love: My Struggle Book 2 (My Struggle, 2)

by Don Bartlett (Translator), Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

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Synopsis

It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind . (Zadie Smith via Twitter on My Struggle Book 1). It is shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014. 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 children's' 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 Man in Love, the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knausgaard write of tempestuous relationships, the trials of parenthood and an urge to create great art. His singular insight and exhilarating honesty must be read to be believed. Another international sensation from the publishers of HHhH, 1Q84 and Coetzee's Summertime. Fans include Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Hari Kunzru, Jeffrey Eugenides, James Wood and Rachel Cusk.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 672
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Oct 2013
ISBN 10: 0099555174
ISBN 13: 9780099555179
Book Overview: An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Media Reviews
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin Independent Punishingly honest record of the triumphs and banalities of his own life -- Tim Martin Telegraph My favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith Spectator A brutally honest self-examination in what feels like real time -- Justine Jordan Guardian Online 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 -- Stephen Romei Spectator Packed with existential angst and fierce insights Big Issue in the North Required reading for new fathers -- Richard Godwin Evening Standard 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
Author Bio
Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.