"Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." -- James Wood, "The New Yorker" (selected as one of the Books of the Year)"A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." --"Dagsavisen "(Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." --"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "(germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." --"La Repubblica "(Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." --"Vasterbottens-kuriren "(Sweden)

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. "My Struggle "has won countless international literary awards and has been translated into at least fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and three children.