The Knausgård, Karl Ove 1968- creator author. Aitken, Martin translator. text bibliography Novels. nyu 2021 monographic eng nor

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666 pages ; 25 cm "A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, 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 Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun. 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 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, 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"-- Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. "Originally published in Norwegian under the title Morgenstjernen by Forlaget Oktober, Oslo" Includes bibliographical references. PT8951.21.N38 M6713 2021 839.82374 KNA/M Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- New York : Penguin Press, 2021 (DLC) 2021033641 9781784703301 9780399563423 9780399563447 9780593300602 2021033640 DLC 210709 20231006111154.0 22122650 eng