Dancing in the Dark

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 the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.

"A living hero" -- Jonathan Lethem Guardian "A work of genius" -- Ben Lerner London Review of Books "Fires every nerve ending while summoning in the reader the sheer sense of how amazing it is to be alive" -- Jeffrey Eugenides New York Times "Beautifully human... Being drawn into his world is an ineluctable pleasure" -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times "It has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century" Guardian