The Third Realm
The captivating new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the MY STRUGGLE series
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- 16,99 €
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- 16,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The intense third installment in Knausgaard's Morning Star series (after The Wolves of Eternity) teems with carnage and interpersonal drama in the wake of a new star's appearance in the skies above Norway. The cast, many from The Morning Star, reckons with the recent murder of three members of a metal band and the unnerving mystery of the astronomical event, which seems to be linked to a strange phenomenon in which nothing and no one can die. Tove, who is bipolar, tips into a disturbing mania at the vacation house she shares with her teacher husband, Arne. Gaute suspects his wife Kathrine, a priest, of having an affair. Nineteen-year-old Line becomes romantically involved with Valdemar, front man for a metal band whose lyrics reflect his morbid obsessions. Syvert, an undertaker out of work since the star's appearance, meets with Helge, a famous architect who witnessed Syvert's father's death. Jarle, a doctor, is puzzled by a brain-dead patient's return to consciousness. Geir, a philandering police officer, is stymied while investigating the abovementioned murders. Though readers new to the series would be lost, it's a clarifying continuation, packed with philosophy, terror, and the beauty of the mundane. There's plenty here to keep fans of the previous installments hooked.
