{"product_id":"my-struggle-book-four-9780374534172","title":"My Struggle, Book Four","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fourth installment in the beloved, internationally celebrated \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Struggle: Book 4 \u003c\/i\u003efinds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing village in northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove--in the company of the Håfjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world--sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter. In \u003ci\u003eBook 4\u003c\/i\u003e, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"My Struggle: Book Four\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegiac kind of comic novel, and it is pure Karl Ove Knausgaard. This is to say, it comprises intimate descriptions of daily life, descriptions that build to something improbably greater than the sum of their parts.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11701209\"\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374534179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC041000\"\u003eBiographical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC114000\"\u003eWorld Literature | Norway\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Norway in 1968. \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle \u003c\/i\u003ehas won countless international literary awards and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Bartlett\u003c\/b\u003e has translated dozens of books of various genres, including several novels and short story collections by Jo Nesb? and \u003ci\u003eIt's Fine by Me\u003c\/i\u003e by Per Petterson. He lives in Norfolk, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698333061357,"sku":"9780374534172","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_1d747e8d-da22-40b2-9b55-e4cd5cf6d704.jpg?v=1747441519","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/my-struggle-book-four-9780374534172","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}