688 pages |Hardcover

A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, MORNING STAR is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we dont understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless

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 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 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 theairport but is he actually dead?

The Morning Staris about life in all its mundanity and drama,the strangeness that permeates our world, andthe darkness in usall. Karl Ove Knausgaards 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.

Story Locale:Norway