The Morning Star

by Karl Ove Knausgaard Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, Edoardo Ballerini, Elisabeth Rodgers, Graham Winton, Hannah Cabell, Leah Horowitz, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, Michael Crouch

Overview

Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.
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 Knausgaard's 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.

Editorial Reviews

DECEMBER 2021 - AudioFile

The many viewpoints of this large novel are well served by the large group of narrators, all of whom embody their characters admirably. Don't, however, expect their stories to come together or to come to any neat resolutions. The central event of the novel, the appearance of a new star, remains unexplained, so why shouldn't the stories? Each character's tale is gripping as written and performed. It’s hard to imagine any of them being better cast. Each viewpoint has a clear, and clearly imagined, personality. All the voices are American, although the translation from the Norwegian is obviously British. Knausgaard, in any language, is a major writer, and this ensemble performance serves him well. D.M.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

DECEMBER 2021 - AudioFile

The many viewpoints of this large novel are well served by the large group of narrators, all of whom embody their characters admirably. Don't, however, expect their stories to come together or to come to any neat resolutions. The central event of the novel, the appearance of a new star, remains unexplained, so why shouldn't the stories? Each character's tale is gripping as written and performed. It’s hard to imagine any of them being better cast. Each viewpoint has a clear, and clearly imagined, personality. All the voices are American, although the translation from the Norwegian is obviously British. Knausgaard, in any language, is a major writer, and this ensemble performance serves him well. D.M.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172544675
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,145,877

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