(Ebook) My Struggle Book № 2: A Man In Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett ISBN 9780099555179, 0099555174, B00CBFYQ7K

(Ebook) My Struggle Book № 2: A Man In Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett ISBN 9780099555179, 0099555174, B00CBFYQ7K

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.  "Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking" (The Observer).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. "[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." - James Wood, The New YorkerHaving left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers’ workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply."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 Romel, The Spectator