The School of Night

The School of NIght is a good place to start for anyone who hasn't read Knausgaard before

NRK

Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes

Torrey Peters

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, 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, Booker longlisted author of IN ASCENSION

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

A deeply strange, polyphonic gothic novel with echoes of Bram Stoker. . . conjures a fictive world that is at once strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique

Ferdia Lennon on THE THIRD REALM

Knausgaard has always been brilliant on families and the domestic.... 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.

Martin MacInnes, author of IN ASCENSION

Sinister and surreal...A parable of ambition , told with epic heft - and a decent place to start if you've been curious about this writer but never read yet him .

Daily Mail

Knausgaard has surpassed even his phenomenally high standards with his latest novel. This dark and macabre offering is incredibly addictive… an intense but hugely rewarding read

Daily Mirror

Ingenious...engrossing...a remarkable addition to an exciting and disturbing series

Publishers Weekly

Inspired...a damned masterpiece

The Times

In Martin Aiken’s translation, the prose is fluent and nimble, the imagery possessed of a steely melancholia

Times Literary Supplement

I put this down this book only to eat and sleep. Knausgaard has produced another addictive psychological thriller – by turns exciting, entertaining and tragic

Spectator

An addictive and eerie reading experience

Guardian

A provocative novel about ambition and morality

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