Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller.
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...
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784703301Number of pages: 688Weight: 495 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 mm
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'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you,as if in a tractor beam,into his storytelling... Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.'- New York Times
'Grippingly crafted storytelling... prose that is keenly aware of the value of suspense and surprise... (The Morning Star) has that beguiling,elusively compulsive quality that Knausgaard seems to have made his own.'- Observer
'I read The Morning Star compulsively,and stayed awake all night after finishing it... the novel's revelation is not that something terrible is coming for us all but that it is already in our midst.'- New Yorker
'Knausgaard's sentences,in Martin Aitken's translation,are both plainly direct and lyrically,emotionally elevated... symphonic.'- New York Times Book Review
'A true Scandinavian epic... Knausgaard's brilliant storytelling is as bright as the celestial body from which the book takes its title.'- Independent
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard shot to fame with A Death in the Family,a blend of memoir and fiction that narrates - with extraordinary candour - the events of his own early life including recollections about his father's death. The book became the catalyst for an internationally bestselling series,collectively titled Min Kamp ('My Struggle'). He is also the author of the seasonal series of novels,Spring,Summer,Autumn,Winter and the non-fiction volume,Home and Away.
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