Books like My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgård, a Norwegian writer, remembers his teenage years under a cold and frightening father, then the days he and his brother spent clearing the house where their father drank himself to death.
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Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Aliss at the Fire
In 2002, Signe lies on a bench in an old house by a fjord, remembering the November day in 1979 when her husband Asle rowed out onto the water and did not come back.
Islands in the Stream
Thomas Hudson, a painter living alone on Bimini, is visited one summer by his three sons; later, in Cuba during the war, he hunts German submarines with his boat.
The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
The Other Name: Septology I-II
An ageing Norwegian painter reflects on his life, art, and faith in single unbroken sentences across seven books; the first two arrive here.
The Topeka School
In 1990s Topeka, Adam Gordon, a high school debate champion whose parents are psychologists at a renowned clinic, navigates competition, toxic masculinity and a lonely classmate's slow-burning anger, in a novel about where today's American speech came from.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
A Personal Matter
Bird, a twenty-seven-year-old cram-school teacher who dreams of escaping to Africa, learns that his newborn son has a severe brain hernia, and spends the following days running from the decision in front of him.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
The Details
A bedridden woman with a fever recalls four people who shaped her life, turning each encounter over in compact, precise portraits.