Knausgaard's first work of fiction since the groundbreaking MY STRUGGLE novels were published in Norway between 2009-2011. THE MORNING STAR is a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the ordinary lens of life. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.

Informationen zum Autor Karl Ove Knausgaard 's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End , the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence ( The Morning Star , The Wolves of Eternity , The Third Realm and The School of Night ) is published in thirty-six languages. Klappentext Experience a major new literary universe in the making 'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor Nine lives will be forever changed . . . 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, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly... 'Brilliant storytelling' Independent 'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 'Captivating' Observer The Morning Star is set in the Morning Star universe Zusammenfassung Experience a major new literary universe in the making 'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor Nine lives will be forever changed . . . 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, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly... 'Brilliant storytelling' Independent 'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 'Captivating' Observer ...

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Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.

Klappentext

**Experience a major new literary universe in the making

'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor**

Nine lives will be forever changed . . .
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, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly...

*'Brilliant storytelling' Independent*

'Addictive' Daily Telegraph**

*'Captivating' Observer

The Morning Star is set in the Morning Star universe*

Zusammenfassung

Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller.

'Addictive' Daily Telegraph

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

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, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly...

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

'Brilliant storytelling... Epic' Independent

'Captivating' Observer