{"product_id":"the-morning-star-a-novel","title":"The Morning Star: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book  One of NPRs Best Books of 2021  \"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive. Dwight Garner  New York Times  The international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series  The Morning Star is an astonishing  ambitious  and rich novel about what we dont understand  and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless  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 night shift 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?  The Morning Star is about life in all its mundanity and drama  the strangeness that permeates our world  and the darkness in us all. Karl Ove Knausgaards astonishing new novel  his first after the My Struggle cycle  goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos  to what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed and the realms of the living and the dead collide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977897439285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399563423","price":36.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399563423.jpg?v=1770761023","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-morning-star-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}