He falls in love, gives up writing in favour of the steady rewards of literary criticism, and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. Knausgaard writes with unflinching honesty to deliver the full drama of everyday life, in a breathless novel poised between a desperate yearning to be good, and the terrible power of transgression.
The 5th volume in the Norwegian author's epic 6-book autobiographical novel series, which sees Karl Ove attend a disappointing writing course in Bergen, which prompts him to leave for Sweden. 'Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our time' Rachel Cusk, "Guardian"
