The Morning Star (novel)

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The Morning Star (Norwegian: Morgenstjernen) is a novel by the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, published in 2020. The novel is the story of a number of people's everyday life in Sørlandet and Vestlandet while an extraordinarily bright and large star suddenly appears in the sky. It was Knausgård's first major novel after his autobiographical My Struggle series. Knausgård said that a main idea of the novel was to depict how the same reality and events are perceived differently by different people. The Norwegian publisher described it as "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." The novel ends on page 666, which in the New Testament is the Number of the beast. Knausgård says that this was completely accidental. His brother who type set the book told him in a text message that the book was 666 pages long. Knausgård described...

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