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The Morning Star: the new novel from the author of My Struggle

Nine lives are brought together by the mysterious appearance of a huge star in the sky in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller.

'I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life

'Addictive' Daily Telegraph

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. 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 nightshift 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 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.

'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times

'Brilliant storytelling... Epic' Independent

'Captivating' Observer

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 512
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-1-78470-330-1
  • EAN
  • 9781784703301
  • Release date
  • 2022