Editions

A Man in Love

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099555179

  • Length: 672  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 484g

  • RRP: £9.99

A Man in Love

An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard

This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.

It 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, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens’ 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.

‘Compelling, rewarding…breathtaking’ Observer

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099555179

  • Length: 672  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 484g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape

    Boyd Tonkin, Independent

  • Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking

    Observer

  • My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating

    William Leith, Spectator

  • Shocking and compulsive

    Dazed & Confused

  • This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive

    Carys Davies, Metro

  • "Packed with existential angst and fierce insights"

    Big Issue in the North

  • "Required reading for new fathers"

    Richard Godwin, Evening Standard

  • "This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive"

    Carys Davies, Metro

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About the Author

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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