My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love

Name: My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love
Price: 20.39 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (1658 reviews)
Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literary Fiction

4.5 (1,658)

4.5 stars from 1,658 reviews. Top 83% of Literary Fiction books we track.

Published by Farrar, Straus & GirouxPublished 2013-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You appreciate novels that treat everyday life—birthday parties, apartment hunting, failed vacations—as material worthy of sustained literary attention.
You're drawn to autobiographical fiction that prioritises emotional honesty over plot, even when that honesty is unflattering.
You want to read something ambitious and genuinely transformative, even if it means sitting with 600+ pages of a man's interior life.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer plot-driven narratives with clear arcs and resolutions; this is a character study that circles rather than progresses.
You expect discretion from your narrators; Knausgaard's willingness to expose his own failings and those of people he knew will make you uncomfortable.
You have limited patience for extremely long novels that prioritise psychological minutiae over conventional storytelling.

About this book

The second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume work follows the character Karl Ove Knausgaard as he moves to Stockholm after leaving his wife. Living alone, he develops a close friendship with Geir, another Norwegian exile and intellectual interested in boxing and Nietzsche. He also reconnects with Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop years earlier. At its core, the book is a love story about Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. Beyond this central narrative, it explores becoming a father, family life's challenges, failed family vacations, the stress of children's birthday parties, and the daily rhythms of city life that both distract from and occupy his writing. The book was a finalist for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and named a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year.

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Currently 4.5★ from 1,658 reviews

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