My Struggle Book 1

Name: My Struggle Book 1
Author: Karl Ove Knausgard

Set in 4 places · 2 primary

Sense of Place

5/5

Set in

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Tromøya · Norway
author's childhood island home, first half of book
★ primary
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Kristiansand · Norway
Knausgard's adolescence in Kristiansand; formative years and father's decline
★ primary
Bergen · Norway
Young adult years in Bergen struggling to become a writer in the late 1980s-1990s
Stockholm · Sweden
Present-day narrative; adult Knausgard now lives in Stockholm with second family