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THE MORNING STAR - KARL OVE KNAUSGARD KARTONIER...

The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of My Struggle  'the
literary sensation of the decade' (Sunday Times) One long night in August  Arne and Tove are
staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. 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 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 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 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. Praise for My Struggle:
'Tremendous  maddening  addictive  gripping' Observer 'Powerfully alive... intense and utterly
honest' James Wood 'Beautifully human' The Times

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