A New York Times Notable Book • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Knausgaard is among the
finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner New York Times “A ravishing form of theologically
infused fabulism. . . . This combination of the universal and the intimate enables the novel to
approach weighty subjects—death and dying belief and despair—with both the thrust of a
suspense narrative and the depth of a philosophical inquiry.” —The New Yorker 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 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 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 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.
