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The Morning Star

The Morning Star

Knausgaard, Karl Ove
Aitken, Martin

Paperback

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 039956344X
ISBN13: 9780399563447
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 688
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A New York Times Notable Book - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive. --Dwight Garner, New York Times

A ravishing form of theologically infused fabulism. . . . This combination of the universal and the intimate enables the novel to approach weighty subjects--death and dying, belief and despair--with both the thrust of a suspense narrative and the depth of a philosophical inquiry. --The New Yorker

The international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a night shift when one of her patients escapes.

Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding.

Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral service for a man she met at the airport - but is he actually dead?

The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the strangeness that permeates our world, and the darkness in us all. Karl Ove Knausgaard's astonishing new novel, his first after the My Struggle cycle, goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos, to what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed and the realms of the living and the dead collide.

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