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The wolves of eternity / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.

by Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968-

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Knopf Canada, 2023.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Botanists -- Fiction.

Siblings -- Fiction.

9781039003279 (hc.)

789 p. ; 24 cm.

Follow-up to: The morning star.

Translation of: Ulvene fra evighetens skog.

Translated from the Norwegian.

"The transporting, standalone continuation of the acclaimed, apocalyptically-charged novel The Morning Star -- the second in a bold new series. In 1986, twenty-year-old Sivert Loyning returns from the military to his mother's home in Southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream, desperately trying to tell him something. As Sivert begins to investigate his father's life, clues point to the Soviet Union. And when he learns he has a half-sister there, the product of an affair his father had with a Russian woman, it undermines his entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina, Sivert's half-sister, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a young woman, Alevtina had been willing to ask big questions about life and human consciousness, and she wasn't afraid to search for the complex and perhaps unknowable answers. But after an unsettling event in her twenties, she chose a more conventional career path. As an established evolutionary biologist approaching middle-age, she wonders why she has been so determined to keep her world within such a practical and established framework. What is she afraid of? As these two characters intersect, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of the 1980s and present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about inheritance and kinship, siblings and soulmates, and the temporal and eternal"--Provided by publisher.

Norwegian fiction -- Translations into English.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

Aitken, Martin.

Knausgård, Karl Ove, 1968- Ulvene fra evighetens skog. English.

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