My Struggle, Book 4
My Struggle: Book #4
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Don Bartlett
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Description
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But then, as the darkness of the long polar nights start to cover the beautiful landscape, Karl Ove's life also takes a darker turn. The stories he writes tend to repeat themselves, his drinking escalates and causes some disturbing blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his own distress he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems. And then there is the shadow of his father, whose sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to Karl Ove's own life style.
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My Struggle Series

My Struggle, Book 1
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that... Read more »
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My Struggle, Book 2
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Don Bartlett
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." —James Wood, The New Yorker In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his... Read more »
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My Struggle, Book 3
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A family of four—mother, father, and two boys—move 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... Read more »
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My Struggle, Book 4
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard & Don Bartlett
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.... Read more »
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My Struggle, Book 5
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 21 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one,... Read more »
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My Struggle, Book 6
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett & Martin Aitken
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 43 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
My Struggle introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is... Read more »
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