A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, Book Three gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence. "Of course, I remember nothing from this time. It is completely impossible to identify with the infant my parents photographed; this is in fact so difficult it almost seems wrong to use the word 'I' when referring to it, lying in the baby bath, for instance, its skin unnaturally red, its arms and legs sprawling, and its face distorted in a scream no one remembers the reason for anymore ... Is that creature the same as the one sitting here in Malmö, writing this?" --from Book Three of My Struggle More praise for Book Three: "A superbly told childhood story ... Knausgaard writes about everyday life as a child with a flow and continuity that all hangs together ... the text has a gravitational pull that draws the reader in only further." -- Dag Og Tid (Norway) "An aesthetic pleasure ... A patient, chiseled, and intense portrayal of a child's sensory experience. Book Three is a classic." -- Klassekampen (Norway) "Compelling reading ... Knausgaard has an equally good eye for small and large events." -- Aftenposten (Norway) "A gripping novel ... This childhood portrayal drifts off with a lightness and sensitivity that not many will associate with him ... There is no doubt that the series is worth following the author all the way." -- Dagens Næringsliv (Norway) "The man can write a novel about a solid, pretty traditional upbringing too ... A sensitive, sharp depiction of growing up in the 70's." -- Adresseavisen (Norway) A  New York Times  Notable Book of the Year FINALIST - THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD "Halfway through, this (six-volume) series is starting to look like an early-21st-century masterpiece." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “My Struggle is a truly original and enduring and great work of literature." -- The New York Times Book Review "2014 was the Year of Knausgaard . . . the six-book memoir phenomenon  My Struggle [is] . . . a page-turner that keeps readers turning pages, and talking about why they find Knausgaard so irresistible." -- Vanity Fair (11 Best Books of 2014) "I fell into the first two books of  My Struggle  as if I were falling into a malarial fever. I did little else for four days except devour them, leaving email unanswered, dogs unwalked, dishes piling up in the sink. The steady headlamps of his prose stun and mesmerize you, as if you were a lumbering mammal caught in the middle of a highway . . . [Knausgaard] is contemporary fiction’s alchemist of the ordinary. . . . This writer is constructing a towering edifice, in what feels like real time. Few artistic projects of our era feel more worth attending to."  -- Dwight Garner,  The New York Times "Knausgaard’s somewhat autobiographical novels are mesmerizing; he is contemporary fiction’s alchemist of the ordinary. He manages, seemingly without effort, to make the minutia of one man’s life as involving and gravity-laden as another writer’s account of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.”  --  The New York Times  Holiday Gift Guide in recommending all three currently available hardcover volumes of  My Struggle "And then there is the beauty of  Book Three  itself. In the earlier volumes, Knausgaard’s insistence that we witness all the steps the narrator takes to cook his dinner, from turning on the oven to forking the finished product onto his plate, sometimes seemed an irritating exercise in literary estrangement. But the young Karl Ove’s attention to his dinner is in perfect keeping with the child’s perspective, in which details of such daily events are a real source of interest and the focus of attention. It’s as though we were finally let in on the secret referent of Knausgaard’s style." — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books "No writer has emerged on the world stage to more acclaim in at least a decade ...  readers of every stripe, it seems, are talking about Knausgaard." --  Evan Hughes,  The New Yorker "He has managed to transform self-abasement into a kind of grandeur, humiliation into a purified form of pride, and—above all—fiction into the most painful mode of truth-telling." -- The Daily Beast "What's notable is Karl Ove's ability, rare these days, to be fully present in and mindful of his own existence. Every detail is put down without apparent vanity or decoration, as if the writing and the living are happeni