My Struggle (Knausgård novels) published as "The End: My Struggle Book 6". The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a translation of "Mein Kampf" and is thus a clear reference to Hitler. In an essay for the "New Yorker"s website, Evan Hughes explains how Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects "Mein Kampf" to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed
The Book of Negroes (novel) Manhattan for Canada in 1783. Unless you were in "The Book of Negroes", you couldn't escape to Canada. My character, an African woman named Aminata Diallo whose story is based on this history, has to get into the book before she gets out. In my country, few people have complained to me about the title, and nobody continues to do so after I explain its historical origins. I think it's partly because the word 'Negro' resonates differently in Canada. If you use it in Toronto or Montreal, you are probably just indicating publicly that you are out of touch with