ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES DAMAGES HEALTH; THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. "Farewell" is the first book of the six-volume autobiographical cycle "My Struggle" by contemporary Norwegian classic Karl Ove Knausgård. The author writes with utmost frankness about his childhood and adolescence, his passion for rock music, his relationship with his loving but almost invisible mother and estranged, always unpredictable father, about the bitterness of loss and confusion after his death. When Karl Ove himself becomes a father, he must find a balance between the need to care for his family and the desire to dedicate himself to writing... Thanks to Knausgård's uncompromising sincerity, the banality of everyday life attains a metaphysical depth.