{"product_id":"the-morning-star-a-novel-by-karl-ove-knausgaard","title":"The Morning Star: A Novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin Books:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-over-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"title-detail-tab-line\" class=\"ui container tm-max-width\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-about-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003eA major new work from the author of the renowned\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseries, THE 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\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLast night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI know what it means. It means that it has begun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway, near their friend Egil. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a night shift when one of her patients escapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStrange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road; a death metal band is 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53812909048101,"sku":"9780399563447","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9780399563447.jpg?v=1789167987","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/the-morning-star-a-novel-by-karl-ove-knausgaard","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}