The Wolves of Eternity
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- £9.99
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Publisher Description
The future is no more, and eternity has begun.
'Enormously compelling’ The Times
'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive' New York Times
It is 1986 and Syvert Løyning has returned from military service to his mother's home in southern Norway. One night, he dreams of his late father, and the next morning can't shake him from his mind. Searching through his father's belongings for clues and connections, Syvert finds a cache of letters that leads to the Soviet Union, and to a half-sister, Alevtina, he didn't know he had.
Several decades later, in present-day Russia, he will meet her - just as a mysterious new star appears in the sky...
From internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity is the new book in a visionary series that begins with The Morning Star. Expansive, searching and deeply human, it questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves - and the limits of what we can understand about life itself.
‘So engrossing and entertaining that I crammed in its 800 pages like a glutton devouring a box of chocolates… I was mesmerised throughout this book. The translation is also excellent. More, please’ Spectator
'Captivating' Financial Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Knausgård (My Struggle) blends a Russian family epic with his familiar rendition of a rural Norwegian boyhood in this inspired if slow-moving novel. Syvert Løyning grew up in Norway and lost his father at 11. As a young man, he returns home from his military service in 1986 and takes care of his ill mother. He also gets into mischief with his old football friends, falls in love, and takes a job as an undertaker. The center of Syvert's life is his precocious younger brother, Joar, whom he dotes on after his father's ghost appears to him in a dream and tells him to look out for Joar. In a parallel narrative set in Moscow, Knausgård introduces readers to their father's other family. There, Syvert's half sister, Alevtina Kotov, a brilliant biology student, forsakes her dreams to raise her son and witnesses a decade of political upheaval. After Alevtina and Syvert discover each other's existence (Syvert in shock, Alevtina with benign indifference), they make plans to meet. Though only intermittently propulsive, Knausgård's book doesn't shy away from big questions about the substance of his characters' inner lives, wondering if they're made from "things that didn't exist, which we constructed and believed to exist." Knausgård captures the spirit of a Russian novel in this dense tale.
