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[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence. James Wood, The New Yorker

In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard''s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers'' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

My Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love storythe story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of

My Struggle Book 2

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    A Paperback / softback by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/06/2014
      ISBN13: 9780374534158, 978-0374534158
      ISBN10: 0374534152

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      Book Synopsis

      [Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence. James Wood, The New Yorker

      In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard''s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers'' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

      My Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love storythe story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of

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