“I unscrewed the lid of the coffee tin, put two spoonfuls in my cup and poured in the water, which rose up the sides, black and steaming, then I got dressed.” The writing is by turns poetic and self-reflexive, and sometimes mundane and overly descriptive of small details. Prompting employers to have Knausgaard-free days where people don’t discuss his books at work. In his native Norway half of the population have read his books. Behind the scenes, his uncle attempted to sue him over the depiction of the forementioned dead father.įor me, and millions of other readers, the six part series is as compelling as crack. Not without some shit hitting the fan though. What’s so shocking and also fiendishly pleasurable, is how Karl Ove has harnessed all of the tragedy and private pain of his extended family, has written about it here. This mammoth six part memoir really grabs a hold to the marrow of his family, friends and sexual relationships – the blood and bone.Ī Death in the Family is an exercise in shit-slinging that delves into the mire of Karl Ove’s family life and evocatively describes the death of his father, who succumbed in a rancid house of advanced alcoholism. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back.A Death in the Family is Book 1 of the My Struggle six part autobiography of Karl Ove Knausgaard. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink.
You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer.
With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.
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