The Third Realm

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If no one ever died, what would happen then Experience a major literary universe in the making from global bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. 'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't get enough' The Times 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 THE THIRD REALM 'A visionary epic. . . an exemplary masterclass in what fiction can offer' Guardian 'One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I've ever read. . . This book made me afraid of the dark again.' Brandon Taylor, Washington Post 'Unsettling, disturbing and riveting. . . as accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama series. There is no writer I would rather devour' Spectator PRAISE FOR KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD- 'Addictive' Daily Telegraph '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

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I still can't get enough...The compulsion to keep reading springs from the authors ability to transcribe patterns of thinking. His faith that access to other peoples consciousness might make us feel less alone remains a profound and distinctly literary conviction * The Times *
Unsettling, disturbing and riveting... As we become privy to the characters musings on philosophy, religion, art, neuroscience and love, they grow ever more compelling.... as accessible and creepy as anything by Stephen King and as addictive as your favourite TV drama series. There is no writer I would rather devour * Spectator *
Breathtaking...The book opens and closes with Toveher mix of despair and insight, humour and visionary brilliance turns out to be what these novels need most [The Third Realm] has such an electrifyingly capacious sense of what the novel can be * Guardian *
One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books Ive ever read. Novel by novel, Knausgaard is replenishing some feral charge to the world. This book made me afraid of the dark again. -- Brandon Taylor * Washington Post *
Intense The presence of a detective investigating a ritual murder injects surprising pace, while distinctive meditations on mortality, the divine and mental illness prove enthralling * Mail on Sunday *
If you love Knausgaardyoull devour The Third Realm its ferociously readable I still cant get enough * The Times *
A visionary epic... an exemplary masterclass in what fiction can offer * Guardian *
The Third Realm is primarily a meditation on the ordinary compelling At every turnwe see Knausgaards relish in depicting the unreliability of peoples thoughts * Literary Review *
Readers who come to this book first will find an entertaining story about people sorting through spiritual, domestic, and emotional confusion. But those whove read the prior novels will get a deeper sense of just how fascinating, frustrating, and unknowable we can be to each other, and the consequences of that disconnection. * Kirkus (starred review) *
[In] The Third Realm Knausgaard unspools a philosophical cop drama shot through with shivery horror In 2018 he said hed been binge-watching Twin Peaks. No surprise that that shows eerie tonal swerves are exquisitely channelled here * Daily Mail *

Author Bio

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages. Martin Aitken (Translator) Martin Aitken has translated the works of many Scandinavian writers, among them Karl Ove Knausgaard, Helle Helle, Hanne rstavik and Olga Ravn. He lives in Denmark.