“Ingenious . . . Knausgaard masterfully charts his antihero’s ascending ambition and the encroaching forces that eventually snuff it out. It’s a remarkable addition to an exciting and disturbing series.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The School Of Night is another startling, gripping entry in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series. I love spending time in this ripe, mysterious, unsettling, thought provoking, unpredictable and darkly entertaining world Knausgaard is in the process of creating.” —Colin Barrett, Booker longlisted author of Wild Houses
“There is nothing in contemporary publishing to remotely compare to Knausgaard’s Morning Star series. Knausgaard has always been brilliant on families and the domestic, on the minutiae of the everyday and the quiet, lonely rituals and habits of personality. But in combining this with elements of genre and even pulp fiction-crime-thriller, horror and the occult-he has unleashed something entirely new, an antic and almost dangerously immersive reading experience that will completely take over your life. There is something obliterative about its intensity; I read hundreds of pages on a bus journey in slow-moving traffic, completely oblivious to everything around me. The first of the series set in London, and the first to follow a single character throughout, The School of Night is by turns bleak, funny and horrifying, but never less than utterly captivating. Knausgaard seems to have struck on an endlessly generative seam, resulting in an almost deranged hypergraphia, and there appears no limit to where he may take us next.” —Martin MacInnes, the Booker longlisted author of In Ascension
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