EAN: 9780593300602

THE MORNING STAR - KARL OVE KNAUSGARD KARTONIER...

A major new work 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 It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and
artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend  Egil  a driver by
day  is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine  a priest  is on her way home from a seminar  the
journalist Jostein is out on the town  and his wife Turid  who is an assistant nurse  has a
night shift. Above them all  a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one  not even the
astronomers  knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out?
Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news
subsides  and life goes on  but not quite as before  for unusual phenomena begin to occur on
the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August  the characters the novel follows
will each understand what is happening differently  and all face new struggles in their own
lives. The Morning Star is a novel about what we do not understand  about great drama seen
through the limited lens of little lives. But first and foremost  it is a novel about what
happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.

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