My Struggle: Book 3

The third volume—the book that made Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States—in the addictive New York Times bestselling series

 

A family of four—mother, father, and two boys—moves to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: The future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. My Struggle: Book 3 gives us Knausgaard's vivid, Technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence.