Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller.
´Addictive´ Daily Telegraph
´Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling´ New York 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, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly...
´I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it´ Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life
´Brilliant storytelling... Epic´ Independent
´Captivating´ Observer