My Struggle Book 3 [Paperback]

The third volumethe book that made Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United Statesin the addictiveNew York Timesbestselling series

A family of fourmother, father, and two boysmove to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series,My Struggle: Book 3gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence.

Karl Ove Knausgaardwas born in Norway in 1968.My Strugglehas won countless international literary awards and has been translated into at least fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.

Don Bartletthas translated dozens of books of various genres, including several novels and short story collections by Jo Nesb? andIt's Fine by Meby Per Petterson. He lives in Norfolk, England.

1. At the beginning of Book 3, Knausgaard thinks all the way back to his very first memories. He covers everything he can remember from the first six years of his life in just one paragraph. What are your earliest memories? Why do you think Knausgaard waited until Book 3 to go back to the very beginning of his life?

2. Early on in this volume, Knausgaard writes that memory is pragmatic, it is sly and artful, but not in any hostile or malicious way; on the contrary, it does everything it can to keep its host satisfied. What do yls0