No(r)way

Since I'm in a Scandinavian mode these days (having raised a toast to Sweden in my last post), I thought of mentioning Norwegian novelist, Karl Ove Knausgaard's three-part memoir, My Struggle.

The memoir challenges a myth that there is no suffering in Norway. 

Knausgaard, according Gary Shteyngart, humor writer and self-professed lover of all stories that originate from or resolve in suffering (because he grew up in Bolshevik Russia), is a living proof that Norwegians suffer too, and quite acutely to boot.

Here is a review of Knausgaard's memoir.