{"product_id":"the-morning-star-a-novel","title":"The Morning Star","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"497\"\u003eOne August night in southern Norway, several lives unfold along separate paths. Arne and Tove are spending the evening with their children at their summer house, while their friend Egil stays nearby. Kathrine, a priest returning from a Bible seminar, travels home burdened by doubts about her marriage. Journalist Jostein heads out for a night of drinking, and his wife Turid, a nurse working in a psychiatric care unit, begins a shift that takes an alarming turn when one of her patients escapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"638\"\u003eOverhead, a brilliant and unfamiliar star suddenly ignites in the night sky, casting an uneasy sense of anticipation over everything below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1135\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAs the night deepens, unsettling events begin to unfold, gradually drawing nine lives into a shared orbit beneath the strange celestial presence. Arne encounters a road swarming with hundreds of crabs during a late-night drive. Jostein receives a disturbing tip about a death metal band discovered murdered in what appears to be a satanic ritual. Meanwhile, Kathrine performs a funeral service for a man she briefly met at the airport—yet unsettling doubts remain about whether he is truly dead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1135\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Offline Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47575519690804,"sku":"9780399563447","price":400.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/7388\/6004\/files\/9780399563447.jpg?v=1773358526","url":"https:\/\/offlinebooks.com\/products\/the-morning-star-a-novel","provider":"Offline Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}