Death in the Family A

An addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood and grief from the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard 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 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 authors very life were at stake. ‘it’s unbelievable... It's completely blown My mind’ Zadie Smith.