![]() ![]() ![]() The new book spans a couple of August nights in Norway as a new star shines eerily in the sky, while animals and people alike stir restlessly, as if before a disaster. "Karl Ove Knausgaard's Haunting New Novel". ![]() ^ a b Morgenstjernen Forlaget Oktober (in Norwegian) Karl Ove Knausgaard, Knausgaard also spelled Knausgård, (born December 6, 1968, Oslo, Norway), Norwegian writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, Min kamp (200911 My Struggle, 201218), proved to be a runaway best seller in Norway and also captivated a large and growing number of English-language readers. ![]() An English translation with the title The Morning Star was published by Penguin Random House in September 2021. The novel was sold in advance to fifteen countries. It was nominated to the Norwegian Bokhandlerprisen in 2020. Morgenstjernen was published 18 September 2020 in Norway, in November 2020 in Denmark and in early 2021 in Sweden (as Morgonstjärnan) to great critical acclaim in all countries. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free." The Norwegian publisher described it as "a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. Knausgård said that a main idea of the novel was to depict how reality and the same events is perceived differently by different people. It was Knausgård's first major novel after his autobiographical My Struggle series. The novel is the story of a number of people's everyday life in Sørlandet and Vestlandet while an extraordinarily bright and large star suddenly appears in the sky. The Morning Star ( Norwegian: Morgenstjernen) is a novel by the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, published in 2020. ![]()
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