Search for your favourite author or book

Dancing in the Dark

ISBN 
9780099581529
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R270.00
Published 
November 2015
About the book: 

The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series that has been hailed as ‘perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times’ - Guardian

Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing. 

All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation, and to his own great distress he develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. And all the while the shadow of his father looms large...

Other titles by this author 

Others also viewed

Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy...
Best friends and sisters, the four Padvano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in...
Every cop wants to be part of NYPD Red.   The elite team in New York's police...
In 1746, Claire Fraser made a perilous journey through time, leaving her young husband to die at...