“The people in The Third Realm are as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard’s autobiographical
persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can’t stop reading.” — Lev Grossman The Atlantic “One
of the most genuinely suspenseful alluring books I’ve ever read. Novel by novel Knausgaard is
replenishing some feral charge to the world.” — Brandon Taylor The Washington Post From
bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of
enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of us For
several days a strange and bright new star in the sky above Norway has sown an unyielding
sense of foreboding of agitation and of fear. Tove a painter on holiday with her family has
spiraled into a psychosis that stirs her into a flurry of unbridled creativity. Geir a
policeman who has been investigating a grisly triple murder comes to a sinister revelation he
must keep to himself. Nineteen-year-old Line falls in love with the lead singer of a metal band
and is lured into a secret and frightening world. But most bewildering and disquieting is
the discovery made by Syvert an undertaker: since the star has appeared no one has died. In
The Third Realm Karl Ove Knausgaard returns to the spellbinding world of The Morning Star and
The Wolves of Eternity as a cast of new and familiar characters continue to reckon with the
meaning of this star. What is haunting them and why? As supernatural forces collide with the
mundanities of everyday and the threshold between life and death becomes diffuse people are
forced to live their lives as before while the world around them slowly changes in inexplicable
ways. Piercing through human existence into the bestial and phantasmagorical Knausgaard flings
opens the gates to our most distressing neuroses and forces us to ask: What happens if the dark
forces in the world are set free?
