{"product_id":"my-struggle-book-8","title":"My Struggle: Book 2","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMy Struggle: Book 2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374534158\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eTranslation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e608\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBook 2\u003c\/i\u003e] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" --James Wood, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMy Struggle: Book 2 \u003c\/i\u003eis at heart a love story--the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"My Struggle: Book 2 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Paperback | 9780374534158 | New | Fiction 1704767","offer_id":50833160470786,"sku":"1704767","price":50.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71V1BZeFxLL_8c31be43-a17f-4feb-9596-2c69f1040c83.jpg?v=1792609846","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/my-struggle-book-8","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}