The Morning Star

Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star.\r\nI know what it means. It means that it has begun.\r\n\r\nOne 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 nightshift when one of her patients escapes. \r\n\r\nAbove them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding.\r\n\r\nStrange 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? \r\n\r\nThe 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 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, and the realms of the living and the dead collide.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe new novel from the internationally bestselling author of My Struggle:\r\n\r\nThe literary sensation of the decade Sunday Times\r\n\r\nIts unbelievable... Its completely blown my mind Zadie Smith\r\n\r\nTremendous, maddening, addictive, gripping Observer\r\n\r\nPowerfully alive... intense and utterly honest James Wood\r\n\r\nBeautifully human The Times