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Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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October 2014, no. 365

Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Vintage, $32.99 pb, 490 pp

Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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October 2014, no. 365

In Boyhood Island, the third volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s internationally acclaimed My Struggle cycle, we are taken back to where the series began: an island in southern Norway, seven-year-old Karl Ove and his older brother Yngve live under the tyranny of a cruel and taciturn father in the mid-1970s. Unlike the first volume, A Death in the Family (2012), which stays with young Karl Ove for only a few pages before casting off in many different directions, Boyhood Island follows him from ages seven to thirteen in a rarely broken, linear fashion. It ends neatly on the last day of class for the year, as Karl Ove’s family prepares to leave Tromoya, and he farewells a group of friends.

Luke Horton reviews 'Boyhood Island' by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Boyhood Island

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Vintage, $32.99 pb, 490 pp

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