How to be a good father? Childrens birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaards compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the boring struggles of domesticity, this is one fathers personal experience, and somehow, every fathers too.

Selected from the bookA Man in Loveby Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Karl Ove Knausgaards first novel,Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second,A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.