[1] The novel is the story of a number of people's everyday life in Sørlandet and Vestlandet while an extraordinarily bright and large star suddenly appears in the sky.

"[1] Morgenstjernen was published 18 September 2020 in Norway, in November 2020 in Denmark and in early 2021 in Sweden (as Morgonstjärnan) to great critical acclaim in all countries.

Knausgaard chews on notions of faith, free will, the transmigration of souls, the nature of angels, on meaning and nothingness in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Rilke's poetry ... Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive, yet there is something cramped about his work when he approaches ideas straight on, instead of obliquely ...

[13] In a rave review in Los Angeles Times Charles Arrowsmith said that the novel "reveals itself to be the evil twin of My Struggle.

[14] Similarly positive, Brandon Taylor of The New Yorker called it "a secular, superstitious novel in the spirit of Bolaño's 2666 or The Savage Detectives",[15] while The Observer's Andrew Anthony said that Knausgård is "one of the few writers who can move effortlessly and unembarrassedly between profundity and cliche, as though trying to show us that one is no truer than the other.

It’s a shaggy dog story full of loose ends and narrative flaws, but it has that beguiling, elusively compulsive quality that Knausgaard seems to have made his own.