Boyhood Island
- Authors
- Karl Ove Knausgård
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker, Random House
- Tags
- literature
- Date
- 2009-01-01T16:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.18 MB
- Lang
- en
Paperback, 496 pages
Published: 2009
Edition: Harvill Secker, Vintage (2014)
Translated from the Norwegian by: Don Bartlett (2014)
Original Title : Min Kamp Tredje bok. My Struggle Book Three
A family of four –-- mother, father and two boys –-- move to Sørland, to a new house on a new estate. It is the early 1970s, the children are small, the parents young and the future open. But at some point that future happens to them; at some point the future closes.
The third book of the My Struggle cycle is set in a world where children and adults live parallel lives, ones that never meet. With insight and honesty, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes of a child’'s growing self-awareness, of how events of the past impact on the present, and of the desire for other ways of living and other worlds within what we know.