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A Death in the Family

Don Bartlett, Karl Ove Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgaard

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A Death in the Family

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Intimate exploration of grief, family, and identity.

If you're drawn to raw, unfiltered emotional landscapes, Knausgaard's "A Death in the Family" might resonate deeply with you. It's a candid journey through personal history, mixing the mundane with profound insights in a way that turns everyday life into a canvas of literary artistry. The book's commitment to truth can feel as therapeutic as it is heartbreaking, inviting reflection on one's own familial bonds and self-discovery.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2013)
  • Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris) Nominee (2010)
  • Brageprisen for Fiction (2009)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • Morgenbladet Book of the Year Prize
  • Bokhandlerprisen Nominee (2009)
  • Ungdommens kritikerpris Nominee (2010)
  • Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur) Nominee (1)
  • P2-lytternes romanpris (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
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A Death in the Family

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Condition guide
ISBN: 9780099555162
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2013-03-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Literary Criticism
Goodreads rating: 4.1
(rated by 48142 readers)

Description

In this utterly remarkable novel, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty 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. In A Death in the Family, Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profoundly serious, gripping and hugely readable work written as if the author's very life were at stake.
 

Intimate exploration of grief, family, and identity.

If you're drawn to raw, unfiltered emotional landscapes, Knausgaard's "A Death in the Family" might resonate deeply with you. It's a candid journey through personal history, mixing the mundane with profound insights in a way that turns everyday life into a canvas of literary artistry. The book's commitment to truth can feel as therapeutic as it is heartbreaking, inviting reflection on one's own familial bonds and self-discovery.

  • BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2013)
  • Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris) Nominee (2010)
  • Brageprisen for Fiction (2009)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • Morgenbladet Book of the Year Prize
  • Bokhandlerprisen Nominee (2009)
  • Ungdommens kritikerpris Nominee (2010)
  • Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur) Nominee (1)
  • P2-lytternes romanpris (2009)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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