Lit in Translation

My Struggle: Book One

Min kamp. Første bok

Karl Ove Knausgaard (born 1968)

Translated by Don Bartlett

English editions

In English

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The book opens with a dizzying account of death and moves on to a writer’s struggle to master his life, himself and his ambitions for his writing, seeking out what is vulnerable and embarrassing.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
434 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Norway
Series
Min kamp, book 1
First published
2009 by Forlaget Oktober
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9788249506866 (original)

9781935744184 (Archipelago Books, United States)

9781846554674 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)

9780374534141 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9780099555162 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9780914671008 (Archipelago Books, United States)

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