![]() The second is centred on the father’s death at a young age, an alcohol-fuelled demise which turns out to be messier and more damaging than you could ever have imagined. In the first, the focus is on Karl Ove’s childhood, a rather unusual one spent shuttling between a physically-absent mother and a mentally-absent father, one who appears to be shutting himself off from the world. ![]() This initial volume is divided into two parts. So he decides to write about his life – in great detail… Approaching middle age, he feels the pressure of needing to come up with a work of art and is frustrated that his family life may well be depriving him of this opportunity (so far, so creepily familiar…). Knausgård is a family man, living with his second wife and their three children in Sweden. It is different, a little unusual, it seems to have been very popular as well – but is it any good? Let’s find out…Ī Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgård (translated by Don Bartlett – from Harvill Secker)Ī Death in the Family is the first part of Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård’s My Struggle, a cathartic, six-volume, autobiographical novel. ![]() The next stop on our IFFP magical mystery tour is Norway, where we’ll be looking at a book that has provoked a lot of discussion in literary circles. ![]()
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