{"product_id":"the-morning-star-paperback","title":"The Morning Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartin Aitken\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A ravishing form of theologically infused fabulism. . . . This combination of the universal and the intimate enables the novel to approach weighty subjects--death and dying, belief and despair--with both the thrust of a suspense narrative and the depth of a philosophical inquiry.\" \u003ci\u003e--The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe international bestseller from the author of the renowned \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e series, \u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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 night shift when one of her patients escapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbove them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrange 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e's first novel, \u003ci\u003eOut of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, \u003ci\u003eA Time for Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, was longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared. His work is published in 35 languages. Knsugaard's newest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe School of Night\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Penguin Press in January 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43624797372505,"sku":"9780399563447","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/gIXlY_6bhH9780399563447.webp?v=1783911318","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/the-morning-star-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}