The third volume―the book that made Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States―in the addictive New York Times bestselling series
A family of four―mother, father, and two boys―move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, My Struggle: Book 3 gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence.
“Halfway through, this series is starting to look like an early-21st-century masterpiece.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
‘It's unbelievable … I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind.’ Zadie Smith
‘Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’ Rachel Cusk, Guardian
"Via his visceral, immersive art, Knausgaard makes the heart visible" -- Boyd Tonkin ― Independent
"Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel" -- Thomas Meaney ― Times Literary Supplement
