{"product_id":"my-struggle-book-2","title":"My Struggle: Book 2","description":"\"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.\" ―James Wood, The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love story―the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47829690220770,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-22-12.15-2460","price":38.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_459_NPfzMZcD9.jpg?v=1779789535","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/my-struggle-book-2","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}