About “The Morning Star”
A long, complex narrative made up of intimate short deep dives into the lives of loosely connected individuals during an unusually hot summer in Norway. Marriages unravel and characters face mental health struggles, illness, and addiction, all under a strange star that seems to magnify both faith and inconstancy in the characters.
Praise for “The Morning Star”
“Knausgaard’s sentences, in Martin Aitken's translation, are both plainly direct and lyrically, emotionally elevated . . . Symphonic.”
“Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling. He takes the mundane stuff of life—the need to take a leak, the joy of killing pesky flies—and essentializes them . . . Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.”
“[Knausgaard’s] imagination functions perfectly. . . . Just as we begin to wonder where he is taking us, whether he is capable, he gets us there. Actually he does what we might never have expected of Knausgaard: he carries us into a Land, like a part-animal or genderless guide.”
Book details
- First published
- 2020
- Latest edition
- 2020 · ISBN 9780399563447
- Pages
- 688
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is The Morning Star?
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård has 688 pages.
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