BOYHOOD ISLAND

Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifyi ng. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.In the now infamously di rect style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-defin...[Read more]