A family of four mother, father and two boys move to Sirland, to a new
house on a new estate. It is the early 1970s, the children are small, the
parents young and the future open. But at some point that future happens to
them; at some point the future closes. The third book of the My Struggle
cycle is set in a world where children and adults live parallel lives, ones
that never meet. With insight and honesty, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes of a
child's growing self-awareness, of how events of the past impact on the
present, and of the desire for other ways of living and other worlds within
what we know.