My struggle, book one - karl ove knausgaard

The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature.

It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears A la recherche du temps perdu and Mein KampfNbut has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.

It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.

Unafraid of the big issues--death, love, art, fear--and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.