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...
The New York Times bestseller."This book is full of wonders...Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard's patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted." --The New York Times
Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing.
The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental My Struggle series, ‘perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’.
In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard'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.
Joschi ist eigentlich Clochard, irgendwo zwischen Karl Marx und verlottertem Mönch, Jakob ein quirliger Fernsehmann, Uli ein alternativer Aussteiger und Linda, die Schwester, ist auch im Privatleben eine Macherin.
Désirée se rend régulierement sur la tombe de son mari, qui a eu le mauvais gout de mourir trop jeune. Bibliothécaire et citadine, elle vit dans un appartement tout blanc, tres tendance, rempli de livres.
Leeds dans le Yorkshire. Une journée ordinaire s’annonce pour Tracy Waterhouse, chef de la sécurité dans un centre commercial. Jusqu'a ce qu'elle fasse un curieux achat, qui va faire basculer sa vie…
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers.