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Just before she came out, one of the midwives tugged at me, You catch, she said, and so I did, a tiny child slipped out into my hands, slippery as a seal. It was night outside when your eldest sister, Vanja, was born, the darkness filled with swirling snow. See the light of day, the expression goes. Six months remain until you will be born, and anything at all can happen during that time, but I believe that life is strong and indomitable, I think you will be fine, and that you will be born sound and healthy and strong. I have seen an ultrasound image and have laid my hand on the belly in which you are lying, that is all. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of world you will be born into. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free.A ugust 28. The Morning Star is a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. 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.

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. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. 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. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.