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A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard

A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1: Audiobook

Book 1 of the My Struggle series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 runs 16.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (about 10.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16.3listening hrs
Biography & Memoirstore shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day33 days
1 hour / day17 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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What our data says

  • At 16.3 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini narrates 448 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,500 hours in all.

All Edoardo Ballerini audiobooks, measured

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 is book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series: a 16.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Edoardo Ballerini, released June 4, 2015, on the Biography & Memoir shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
16.3 hrs
Narrated by
Edoardo Ballerini
Released
June 4, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Biography & Memoir
Series
My Struggle #1
ISBN
9781471299339

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 as an audiobook?

A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 runs 16.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.8 hours.

Is A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1?

A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.

Is A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1: My Struggle, Book 1 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.8 hours, saving 5.4 hours.