The Morning Star

Description

A long and complex read, composed of intriguing, short deep dives into the intimate lives of loosely connected individuals, against a backdrop of an unusually hot summer in Norway. Marriages unravel, mental health struggles, illness and addiction strain families under the glare of a strange star which seems to have a kind of magnifying effect on both the faith and inconstancy of the characters.

Excerpt

I opened the door of Kenneth's room and looked in. He lay snoring, on his back. That only an hour or so earlier he'd been lying in the forest as if he'd been dead hardly seemed believable. With that giant tramping around him. What had happened, actually?

Description

"A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, 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 Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun. 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 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, 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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Other Editions

• Morning StarPenguin Random House2021-01-01
• The Morning StarHardcoverPenguin Press2021-09-28
• Morning StarPenguin Publishing Group2021-01-01
• Morning StarPenguin Random House2021-01-01
• Morning StarPenguin Random House2021-01-01
• Morning StarPenguin Random House2022-01-01
• The Morning StarPaperbackPenguin Books2022-09-27