Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his passion for rock music, his relationship with his loving but virtually invisible mother and distant, unpredictable father, and the grief and rage caused by his death. When Knausgaard becomes a father himself, he has to seek a balance between caring for his family and his literary ambitions. The “My Struggle” series is a universal story of battles, large and small, that are present in the life of any person. This is a deeply fascinating work, written as if the author's life was at stake.