There are other equally uncanny or inexplicable occurrences, often rendered in sequences of grippingly crafted storytelling. Or there’s Solveig, a nurse who assists in an operation to remove the vital organs of a dead politician who, when the transplant surgeon begins to open him up, comes mysteriously to life. This combination of the universal and the intimate enables the novel to approach weighty subjects - death and dying, belief and despair - with both the thrust of a suspense narrative and the depth of a philosophical inquiry.For example, Kathrine, a priest, carries out a funeral service for a man who died more than a week before but whom she recognises as the guy who had pestered her the previous day. The novel's revelation is not that something terrible is coming for us all but that it is already in our midst. I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it. Knausgaard's brilliant storytelling is as bright as the celestial body from which the book takes its title. Andrew Anthony, ObserverĪ masterpiece, heavenly and diabolical in equal measure. has that beguiling, elusively compulsive quality that Knausgaard seems to have made his own.
prose that is keenly aware of the value of suspense and surprise. recalls the best of My Struggle: that swooping interplay between the general and the specific. The narrators' stories converge and build towards an unexpected, brilliantly handled and devastating conclusion. Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review Knausgaard's sentences, in Martin Aitken's translation, are both plainly direct and lyrically, emotionally elevated. a thoughtful, highly readable novel, packed with ideas and exciting flourishes. reveals himself to be a surprise master of the uncanny. Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive. Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling. 'I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly. 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.Ībove them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. 'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York TimesOne long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller.
Nine lives are brought together by the mysterious appearance of a huge star in the sky in this exhilarating novel from the international bestseller.
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