The morning star : a novel / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.

By:

Knausgard, Karl Ove, 1968-

Contributor(s):

Aitken, Martin

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.Description: 666 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780345811158 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: 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?

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Ayton Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC KNA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33321003208437

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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?

Translated from the Norwegian.

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