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Brought to you by Penguin. London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, newly arrived in the city, seethes with ambition and contempt. His family in Norway never understood him; his fellow photography students bore him. But he knows he...

My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.

This book is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, the emotional strains of children's birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's, too.

Brought to you by Penguin. The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his...

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. 

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father and his bewilderment and grief on his father’s death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives.

Das eigene Leben offen, schonungslos und radikal zum Gegenstand des Schreibens zu machen - dies ist das Konzept, zu dem sich Karl Ove Knausgård in einem furiosen Mammutprojekt entschlossen hat. Radikal ehrlich und mit unglaublicher sprachlicher Kraft nähert er sich in "Sterben", dem ersten Roman einer sechsbändigen Serie, seinem schwierigen Verhältnis zum Vater, das ihn grundlegend geprägt hat.

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. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published.

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch’s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on his own writing. As co-curator of a major new exhibition of Munch's work in Oslo, Knausgaard visits the landscapes that inspired him, and speaks with contemporary artists, including Vanessa Baird and Anselm Kiefer. 

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. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.

Eine einzigartige Sammlung seiner besten Texte zu Literatur, Malerei, Fotografie – und der unerklärlichen Magie des Lebens. Es geht um Faust und den Teufel, um skandinavische Malerei und den Tod, russische Tankstellen und die amerikanische Prairie: Das Essayistische ist eine treibende Kraft in Karl Ove Knausgårds schriftstellerischem Werk, seine preisgekrönten Romane sind undenkbar ohne essayistische Einschübe, in der sich die großen Fragen zur menschlichen Existenz mit dem alltäglichen Leben seiner Protagonisten verbinden.

Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. 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. Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrating. This is an audiobook about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.

Brought to you by Penguin. If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a...

In Inadvertent, internationally best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, as well as his creative development and his struggles. But this audiobook is more than a window into the writer's frame of mind. It's also a glimmering meditation on literature and creativity - on its limitations and its freedoms.

Eine winzige Insel vor der norwegischen Küste: Kristian Hadeland, erfolgreicher Künstler mit einer Karriere in London und einer bevorstehenden Retrospektive am MoMa in New York, hat sich in die Abgeschiedenheit zurückgezogen. Er will seinem Leben ein Ende setzen. "Tod und Vergänglichkeit", das war das große Thema seines fotografischen Werks, mit dem er sich über sämtliche Regeln hinwegsetzte und in der Kunstwelt für Furore sorgte. Für diesen Ruhm ist er einen faustischen Bund eingegangen.

In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

My Struggle introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intense and irresistible to hear. 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.

Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the 17th century.

Karl Ove flytter til Bergen for at gå på Skrivekunstakademiet. Det bliver en gedigen skuffelse; han vil så meget, forstår så lidt og lykkes ikke med noget af det, han laver. Med et tilsyneladende fuldstaendig uforståeligt gåpåmod fortsaetter han med at skrive og laese. Flere af de mennesker, han kender og omgås, får deres manuskripter antaget på forlag og debuterer som forfattere. Karl Ove begynder at taenke, at han selv kan blive en habil litteraturskribent, men naeppe nogensinde kunstner. Men skrivningen aendrer sig, og forholdet til verden omkring ham aendrer sig også.

I det selvbiografiske romanvaerk "Min kamp" beskriver forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgård sin kamp for at komme overens med livet, sig selv, sine litteraere ambitioner og de mennesker, han har omkring sig. Efter tre år i gymnasiet i Kristiansand rejser Karl Ove 18 år gammel til Nordnorge, hvor han har fået job som laerervikar. Hans foraeldre er blevet skilt, hans bror Yngve er flyttet for laenge siden, og Karl Ove skal ud i verden og vaere en ung mand. I det nordlige møder han elever og kolleger, som bringer ham i situationer, han aldrig før har befundet sig i.