The School of Night

An exciting epic, dark and challenging

Dagsavisen

Riveting

Morgenbladet

A masterpiece

Fædrelandsvennen

As exciting as a crime story, with surprising twists and an occasional biblical darkness

Dagsavisen

A rare page-turner...an indisputable triumph and a significant further development of the flexible, unpredictable form the Morning Star series has taken and become... With The School of Night l we are finally approaching just that, a radically new way of writing and thinking about a novel.

Vinduet

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

NRK

Knausgaard is back: Devilishly dark and at times wildly funny... one of the most completely unsympathetic characters I've encountered between two covers. Knausgaard's ability to paint this personality is unsurpassed... All details, digressions and references are cleverly screwed together, and the result a diabolical heist novel

Dagbladet

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

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard has long been hailed as one of the world's greatest living authors , and he's surpassed even his phenomenally high standards with his latest novel , The School of Night. This dark and macabre offering is one of the most incredibly addictive books I've ever read , luring me into the increasingly erratic world of the dislikeable Norwegian photography student Kristian Hadeland, starting in mid-Eighties London… a standalone novel that delves into the darkest corners of human nature, and what one man is prepared to do to become famous…an intense but hugely rewarding read , and a great place to start for those new to Knausgaard.

UK Press Syndication

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…imbues these new proceedings with originality and intensity. There are bravura set-pieces in which we see Kristian for who he really is

Daily Telegraph

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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