Boyhood Island - Free Digital Sampler

A Free Digital Download from Boyhood Island, third instalment in the international sensation, My StruggleChildhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.In this passage, Karl Ove is desperately looking forward to attending his swimming course with his classmates. That is, until his mother forgets to buy him the mandatory swimming cap ahead of time.In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated.