My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing village in northern Norway, where he has been hired as a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time.

When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove--in the company of the Håfjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together in close quarters--confronts private demons, reels from humiliations, and is elated by small victories. We are immersed, along with Karl Ove, in this world--sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes serenely beautiful--where memories and physical obsessions burn throughout the endless Arctic winter.

In Book 4, Karl Ove must weigh the realities of his new life as a writer against everything he had believed it would be.

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Translator: Don Bartlett
Series: My Struggle Book 4
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 512pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5  x 1
Notes: paperback
Release Date: April 19, 2016
ISBN: 978-0374534172