A New York Times Notable Book
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021
Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive." --Dwight Garner, New
York Times
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.
