Book Two of the six-volume literary masterwork My Struggle flows with
the same raw energy and candor that ignited the series' unprecedented
bestselling run in Scandinavia, a virulent controversy, and an avalanche
of literary awards. Knausgaard breaks down lived experience into its
elementary particles, revealing the wounds and epiphanies of a truly
examined life. Walking away from everything he knows in Bergen, Karl Ove
finds himself in Stockholm, where he waits for the next stretch of the
road to reveal itself. He strikes up a deep friendship with another
exiled Norwegian, a boxing fanatic and intellectual named Geir. He
reconnects with Linda, a vibrant poet who had captivated him at a
writers' workshop years earlier, and the shape of his world changes.
Book Two exposes the inner landscape of a man falling in love and the
fraught joys and impossible predicaments he faces as a new father. We
look on as he watches his life unfold. Love, rage, and beauty flood
these pages. Knausgaard writes with exhilarating honesty and insight
about the collection of moments that make up a life - the life of
someone with an irrepressible need to write, of someone for whom art and
the natural world are physical needs, of someone for whom death is
always standing in the corner, of someone who craves solitude and love
from the depths of his being.
