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The Third Realm
- Author
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 3 October 2024
- Run Time
- 16 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Magical realism, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Fiction in translation
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
If no one ever died, what would happen then?
For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. 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?
With The Third Realm, Karl Ove Knausgaard expands the spellbinding universe of The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity, as a cast of new and familiar characters begins to tell the story in the round. With each thrilling page, the possibility emerges that a malign force is at large, and that perhaps no one is beyond its reach.
PRAISE 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… Big themes — the cosmos, death and resurrection — are amplified through ghostly visitations, doppelgänger lives and the question of what, if anything, lies beyond human existence’ Financial Times
© Karl Ove Knausgaard 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
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I still can't get enough...The compulsion to keep reading springs from the author’s ability to transcribe patterns of thinking. His faith that access to other people’s consciousness might make us feel less alone remains a profound — and distinctly literary — conviction
The Times
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Unsettling, disturbing and riveting... As we become privy to the characters musings on philosophy, religion, art, neuroscience and love, they grow ever more compelling.... 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
Spectator
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Knausgaard is one of the finest writers at work today, and The Third Realm is a deeply strange, polyphonic gothic novel with echoes of Bram Stoker. Blending acute psychological realism with the supernatural, it conjures a fictive world that is at once strikingly humane, unsettling, and wholly unique
Ferdia Lennon
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Breathtaking...The book opens and closes with Tove…her mix of despair and insight, humour and visionary brilliance turns out to be what these novels need most… [The Third Realm] has such an electrifyingly capacious sense of what the novel can be
Guardian
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One of the most genuinely suspenseful, alluring books I’ve ever read. Novel by novel, Knausgaard is replenishing some feral charge to the world. This book made me afraid of the dark again.
Washington Post
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Intense… The presence of a detective investigating a ritual murder injects surprising pace, while distinctive meditations on mortality, the divine and mental illness prove enthralling
Mail on Sunday
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If you love Knausgaard…you’ll devour The Third Realm… it’s ferociously readable… I still can’t get enough
The Times
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A visionary epic... an exemplary masterclass in what fiction can offer
Guardian
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The Third Realm… is primarily a meditation on the ordinary… compelling… At every turn…we see Knausgaard’s relish in depicting the unreliability of people’s thoughts
Literary Review
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Readers who come to this book first will find an entertaining story about people sorting through spiritual, domestic, and emotional confusion. But those who’ve read the prior novels will get a deeper sense of just how fascinating, frustrating, and unknowable we can be to each other, and the consequences of that disconnection.
Kirkus (starred review)
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Details
- Author
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 16 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 October 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529925418
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Magical realism, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Fiction in translation
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.If no one ever died, what would happen then?For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards psychosis. Line falls in love with a musician named Valdemar and is lured to a secret death metal gig in a remote forest. 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?With The Third Realm, Karl Ove Knausgaard expands the spellbinding universe of The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity, as a cast of new and familiar characters begins to tell the story in the round. With each thrilling page, the possibility emerges that a malign force is at large, and that perhaps no one is beyond its reach.PRAISE 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… Big themes — the cosmos, death and resurrection — are amplified through ghostly visitations, doppelgänger lives and the question of what, if anything, lies beyond human existence’ Financial Times© Karl Ove Knausgaard 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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