Cover art for A Death in the Family
Published
Vintage Books, March 2013
ISBN
9780099555162
Format
Softcover, 496 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.6cm

A Death in the Family My Struggle Book 1

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'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

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with exhilarating 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 the first of the six books in the My Struggle cycle. In it Knausgaard has created a universal story which is gripping, hugely readable and written as if the author's very life were at stake.

Another international sensation from the publishers of HHhH, 1Q84 and Coetzee's Summertime.

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