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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
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Summary

A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out? Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news subsides, and life goes on, but not quite as before, for unusual phenomena begin to occur on the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August, the characters the novel follows will each understand what is happening differently, and all face new struggles in their own lives. 

The Morning Star is a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.

©2020 Karl Ove Knausgaard (P)2021 Recorded Books

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5 stars ... if we'll have a sequel to wrap it up.

5 stars ... if we'll have a sequel to wrap it up. Such rich and interesting characters.

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Interesting

It's been translated in to British English but is read by American voices, which sounds odd at times. And maybe I missed something, but there seemed to be a lot of loose ends not tied up. Despite those two things though, this is a very compelling and thought-provoking read and I certainly enjoyed it.

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Excellent

I love the company of Karl Ove. The ambivalence of life and death good and evil theism and atheism . Narrated by many which helps because with no guiding narrator it helps you know whose story you are in. Will miss it madly.

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