Stuart Evers

Unkindly light: The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, reviewed

A new star appears over Norway and winks like a devil’s eye as increasingly disturbing events play out beneath its gaze

Karl Ove Knausgaard. [Getty Images] 
issue 02 October 2021
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    Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken

    Harvill Secker, pp. 666, £20

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