A Man In Love : The My Struggle Series : Book 2

A Man In Love : The My Struggle Series : Book 2
ISBN: 9780099555179
Publication Date: 1 October 2013

An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

'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 on My Struggle Book 1

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 childrens' 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.

A Man in Love , the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knausgaard write of tempestuous relationships, the trials of parenthood and an urge to create great art. His singular insight and exhilarating honesty must be read to be believed.

Read Caroline Baum's Review

Karl Ove Knausgaard puts himself under the microscope with an honesty that will make you wince, laugh, cry. Unsparing, unflattering bare-bones prose - think of him as a male Scandinavian Helen Garner and you sort of get the idea.

Volume One is about his alcoholic father, Volume Two takes a scalpel to his marriage and own experience of fatherhood. His willingness to expose his vulnerabilities and flaws while examining what it means to be a man here and now has the grittiness of a black and white documentary as he tracks his interior malaise, guilt and inadequacy.

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