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’ SpectatorPRAISE 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.