The Morning Star

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 insouthern Norway. Their friend Egilhas his own placenearby.Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinkingfor the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric careunit,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 theairport- but is he actually dead?

The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama,the strangeness that permeates our world, andthe darkness in usall. 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 andthe realms of the living and the deadcollide.