THE MORNING STAR - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Translated by Martin Aitken)

ISBN 10: 0399563423 / ISBN 13: 9780399563423

Published by New York City, NY: Penguin Press, 2020, 2021

About this Item

1st Printing. 666 pages. Published in 2020. The first volume - thematically, not explicitly stated as such - of the author's new multi-novel sequence. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Karl Ove Knausgaard's "Morgenstjernen" in a felicitous English translation. An ambitious and risk-taking departure from his "My Struggle" cycle. It must be encouraging to Knausgaard that his novel has been hailed for its exquisite prose and narrative thrust by serious readers and critics (many of whom are neither religious or spiritually inclined). It should also be noted that substantial credit for the prose is owed to Martin Aitken, his indefatigable translator, who was recognized as such by winning the PEN Translation Prize. "In his first work of fiction since the six volumes of 'My Struggle', Knausgaard trades his bracingly autobiographical mode for a ravishing form of theologically infused fabulism. A mysterious celestial body appears in the late-August sky, accompanied by Biblical omens, hallucinations, and increasingly uncanny events in the natural world. Tracing the lives of nine interconnected characters, Knausgaard sets these enigmatic phenomena against the minutiae of everyday life. This combination of the universal and the intimate enables Knausgaard 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" (The New Yorker Magazine). "Knausgaard has managed a page-turner that is recognizably his own. The true sign of the master's touch: He writes too much, but always leaves you wanting more" (Christian Lorentzen). The fundamental risk he is taking as a literary artist is simply this: For better or for worse, ours is an aggressively Secular Age that believes in, indeed worships, science instead. An absolute "must-have" title for Karl Ove Knausgaard collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize in 2019. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0399563423.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MORNING STAR - Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Penguin Press, 2020
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399563423
• ISBN 13: 9780399563423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: no

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Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book 

One of NPR's 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 don't 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 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.

About the Author

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears.