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From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, an expansive, kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change--and the warring impulses towards light and dark that live in all of us One summer day, while on vacation with her husband and children, the artist Tove begins to hear voices. These voices promise to grant her an extraordinary power--but also demand a sacrifice in exchange. Gaute, a schoolteacher, is tormented by thoughts of his wife Kathrine’s infidelity, while one of his students begins to be similarly possessed by intense nightmares. The architect Helge is racked by sudden, intense guilt about a car crash he witnessed forty years ago. Nineteen year-old Line falls in love with Valdemar, the charismatic front man of a black metal band, and finds herself drawn into the band’s strange, ritualistic world. And the police officer Geir, while investigating a horrific triple murder, stumbles upon a theory too inexplicable to share with anyone. Uniting these seemingly disparate lives is the presence of a blazing new star in the sky, which seems to have shifted the world in ways that none of them can understand. Most unsettling of all is the undertaker Syvert’s realization that no one--not a single person--has died since the star’s appearance days ago. It’s as if the world is haunted--but by whom, and why? Building on the worlds of
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was longlisted for the 2010 International Dublin Literary Award. The My Struggle cycle of novels has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it has appeared. His work is published in 35 languages. Knsugaard's newest novel, The School of Night, will be published by Penguin Press in January 2026.
Martin Aitken's translations of Scandinavian literature number some thirty-five books. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International DUBLIN Literary Award (2017) and the U.S. National Book Awards (2018), as well as the 2021 International Booker Prize. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019.
Zusammenfassung
“The people in The Third Realm are as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard’s autobiographical persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can’t stop reading.” —Lev Grossman, The Atlantic
“One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read. Novel by novel, Knausgaard is replenishing some feral charge to the world.” —Brandon Taylor, The Washington Post
From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face of enormous change—and the warring impulses between light and dark that live in all of us
For several days, a strange and bright new star in the sky above Norway has sown an unyielding sense of foreboding, of agitation, and of fear. Tove, a painter on holiday with her family, has spiraled into a psychosis that stirs her into a flurry of unbridled creativity. Geir, a policeman who has been investigating a grisly triple murder, comes to a sinister revelation he must keep to himself. Nineteen-year-old Line falls in love with the lead singer of a metal band and is lured into a secret and frightening world.
But most bewildering, and disquieting, is the discovery made by Syvert, an undertaker: since the star has appeared, no one has died.
In The Third Realm, Karl Ove Knausgaard returns to the spellbinding world of The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity, as a cast of new and familiar characters continue to reckon with the meaning of this star. What is haunting them, and why?
As supernatural forces collide with the mundanities of the everyday, and the threshold between life and death becomes diffuse, people are forced to live their lives as before while the world around them slowly changes in inexplicable ways. Piercing through human existence into the bestial and phantasmagorical, Knausgaard flings open the gates to our most distressing neuroses and forces us to ask: What happens if the dark forces in the world are set free?
