num_pages: 666
description: It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in southern Norway. Their friend Egil a driver by day is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine a priest is on her way home from a seminar the journalist Jostein is out on the town and his wife Turid who is an assistant nurse has a night shift. Above them all a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one not even the astronomers knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out? Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news subsides and life goes on but not quite as before for unusual phenomena begin to occur on the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August the characters the novel follows will each understand what is happening differently and all face new struggles in their own lives.
language: English
title: The Morning Star
publisher: Penguin Press