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Also by Karl Ove Knausgaard:

The Third Realm, October 2024
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The Wolves of Eternity, September 2023
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The Morning Star, October 2022
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The Morning Star
Karl Ove Knausgaard

Penguin Press
October 2021
On Sale: September 28, 2021
688 pages
ISBN: 0399563423
EAN: 9780399563423
Kindle: B095W7TPVH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction Literary

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.


The new novel from the internationally bestselling author of My Struggle:

'The literary sensation of the decade' Sunday Times

'It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith

'Tremendous, maddening, addictive, gripping' Observer

'Powerfully alive... intense and utterly honest' James Wood

'Beautifully human' The Times

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