A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1

London: Vintage, 2013 9780099555162. First soft cover edition. Later printing. VG. No inscriptions or annotations. 490 pages. Knausgaard made his publishing debut in 1998 with the novel 'Out of the World', for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. This was the first time in the award's history that a debut novel had won. It was with the six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels that Knausgaard became a household name in Norway. Published from 2009 to 2011 and totaling over 3,500 pages, the books were hugely successful and also caused much controversy. "It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind." Zadie Smith. "Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerising work, written as if the author's very life were at stake." The International Bestseller. .