The Morning Star

Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling... Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.

Dwight Garner, New York Times

[Knausgaard] reveals himself to be a surprise master of the uncanny... a thoughtful, highly readable novel, packed with ideas and exciting flourishes.

Los Angeles Times

A compelling mystery.

Mail on Sunday

Knausgaard's sentences, in Martin Aitken's translation, are both plainly direct and lyrically, emotionally elevated . . . Symphonic.

Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review

The narrators' stories converge and build towards an unexpected, brilliantly handled and devastating conclusion.

Spectator

Fascinating, provocative... [The Morning Star] recalls the best of My Struggle: that swooping interplay between the general and the specific.

Claire Lowdon, Times Literary Supplement

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.

Andrew Anthony, Observer

A masterpiece, heavenly and diabolical in equal measure.

Emily Watkins

A true Scandinavian epic... Knausgaard's brilliant storytelling is as bright as the celestial body from which the book takes its title.

Roddy Brooks, Independent

I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it... The novel's revelation is not that something terrible is coming for us all but that it is already in our midst.

Brandon Taylor, New Yorker

Ravishing... This combination of the universal and the intimate enables the novel 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.

New Yorker