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The Wolves of Eternity

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken - translator
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gilli Messer, Natasha Soudek, Vas Eli
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The future is no more, and eternity has begun.

It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and can't shake him from his mind. Searching through his father's belongings for clues and connections, he finds a cache of letters that lead to the Soviet Union.

In present-day Russia, Alevtina is trying to balance work and family. She has always sought the answers to life's big questions, but is preoccupied with care of her young son. Her friend Vasilisa offers some nourishment: she is writing a book about an ancient feature of Russian culture, the belief in eternal life. Meantime, Alevtina is heading towards a meeting that will redraw the contours of her world.

A searching and humane novel, The Wolves of Eternity is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different - yet deeply connected - lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's extraordinary new series, it expands the universe of The Morning Star in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends.

©2023 Karl Ove Knausgaard (P)2023 Penguin Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary World Literature

Critic Reviews

I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it. (Brandon Taylor)
[An] enormously compelling book… The range of subjects The Wolves of Eternity explores is fascinating
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Here we have characters with hopes and human frailties amid a world of inevitable decline.

Knausgaard’s Genius

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Complexity of philosophy and ethics Subject matter. Nature vs science. Russian exploration after glasnost and in the era of Putin

Writing

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