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A Man in Love
Book 2
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2013
On Sale: May 2, 2013
577 pages
ISBN: 0374534152
EAN: 9780374534158
Kindle: B00CBFYQ7K
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In the second installment of Karl Ove
Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the
character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where,
having left his wife, 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. My Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love story—the story
of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the
novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the
turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful
attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of
birthday parties for children, and of the daily
frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping
him from (and filling) his novel. It is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the
unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers
will be left breathlessly demanding more.
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