Don Bartlett

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm....

Unafraid of the big issues - death, love, art, fear - and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature....

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a schoolteacher....

As a 19-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block....

The character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence....

My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation....