The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgaard

If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. Geir, a policeman, is investigating a ritual murder but chances upon something more horrifying even than the bodies in the trees – the last bodies he sees, because, as undertaker Syvert is the first to realise, people have stopped dying since the star appeared. What is haunting the world – and why? As profound as it is thrilling, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm is a breathtaking novel about ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change. PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: 'Ferociously readable' The Times 'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 'As accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama' Spectator 'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times ‘Casts an existential spell. . . captivating' Financial Times ‘Knausgaard unspools a philosophical cop drama shot through with shivery horror. . . exquisitely channelled’ Daily Mail

As throughout the series, Knausgaard is using everyday people to explore knotty questions about God’s existence, our need for spiritual connection, and the fine line between religious devotion and mental illness. . Readers who come to this book first will find an entertaining story about people sorting through spiritual, domestic, and emotional confusion. But those who’ve read the prior novels will get a deeper sense of just how fascinating, frustrating, and unknowable we can be to each other, and the consequences of that disconnection. * Kirkus (starred review) *
I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it -- Brandon Taylor, on The Morning Star
Brilliant storytelling... Epic *  Independent, on The Morning Star *
Grippingly crafted storytelling... prose that is keenly aware of the value of suspense and surprise... [The Morning Star] has that beguiling, elusively compulsive quality that Knausgaard seems to have made his own. * Observer, on The Morning Star *
[An] enormously compelling book… The range of subjects The Wolves of Eternity explores is fascinating * Sunday Times, on The Wolves of Eternity *

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes The Morning Star, Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some 35 books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the U.S. National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019.

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ISBN 13	9781787304185
ISBN 10	1787304183
Title	The Third Realm
Author	Karl Ove Knausgaard
Series	The Morning Star
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Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-10-03
Number of pages	512
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