A review by kirsten0929
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård

3.0

Such a fan of his My Struggle series but couldn’t latch on to this novel in the same way. A lot of unconnected characters that we are told in the book blurb will come together, but I didn’t find that they did and felt they were all left unfinished. That said, he’s captured the ordinariness of a couple of days in the lives of regular people. The characters lives don’t begin and end with his story, we get the sense that we’re picking up in the middle of something and when we leave them they’ll continue on with their lives. I can appreciate that. I heard the author and his philosophy in all the characters, but the last chapter was an essay on death and dying written by one of the characters which felt kind of forced in. I really like hearing the original language come through in translations and in this one I definitely felt the Norwegian-ness come through.