I did what I was told. Ate the sandwiches he'd made, then went to bed. Lay for a long while in the dark, thinking about the headlights in the water, the car in the water, its headlights shining as I lay there. I looked closer and saw that it was; the little drawing he was drawing in his drawing was of his room too. But then... the book got so profoundly good that after reading the whole thing, I have to give it five stars. With “The Wolves of Eternity,” the Norwegian distance runner Karl Ove Knausgaard brings us his second massive speculative novel in three years. Like its predecessor, “ The Morning Star” (2020), the new novel comprises multiple narratives filtered through various characters. The two also share the conviction that we live in edge times and that the stakes for all of us are now very high. 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.

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Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize. Although the interview had gone well, I knew I never should have done it. That must have been what was tormenting me. It wasn't as if there was much good happening that year, 1977, certainly not in my own life, it was more the feeling that something was happening, and not least that something existed. I got it out, put it to my shoulder and took aim at a sparrow that was perched on a twig on the tree outside the window. Hvorvidt denne lange begynnelsen om Terje passer inn i totalhistorien om morgenstjernen, er en helt annen sak.

Vasilisa, meanwhile, is researching early-20th-century Russian sects preoccupied with the resurrection of the dead and the afterlife. She focuses on one Nikolai Fyodorov, a savant who in his day was a great influence on both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. The dead can be revived, Fyodorov believed, and the earth repopulated with all who ever lived. A mad zealotry. For Vasilisa he embodies a drive to somehow counter the terrible carnage of recent wars. She sees a link to our current explorations of transhumanism, the use of technology to counter physical death. A world that after three hundred years of natural science is left without mysteries. Everything is explained, everything is understood, everything lies within humanity’s horizons of comprehension.

The Wolves of Eternity, by Karl Ove Knausgaard Rising star: The Wolves of Eternity, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Plot wise - lots of stuff here to evoke some series nostalgia for the Struggle heads. This thing moves like a slower, very successful Stephen King novel (as the Translator Max Lawton has noted Stephen King is kind of an apt comparison for KOK). Also the way that this ties into the Morning Star is handled maybe in the best way possible, so mazel tov for that.There was no one in when I got home. Joar was at school and Mum must have gone somewhere after work. I felt restless and impatient, wanting something to happen, but of course nothing did. The interview had gone all right, so it couldn’t have been that that made it so hard for me to relax.

Book Review: ‘The Wolves of Eternity,’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Dr Leyla Sanai is a Persian-British writer and retired doctor who worked as a physician, intensivist, and consultant anaesthetist before developing severe scleroderma and antiphospholipid syndromeAcross the road from our house, woods sloped away towards a narrow inlet of the sea, on this side was our housing estate. If you followed the road down to the junction and took a right there, you came to a low bridge that spanned the inlet. There were some pontoons below the bridge and a bit further away was the strait. Life emerged when something was held firm, and whatever did that has never let go. That something was information, in the form of a very particular language in a code that had remained unchanged ever since. All right, you’ve seen it now,’ I said. ‘Put it down and come inside.’ The little head was a mess of bloody goo and splintered bone. Det er en lang bok Knausgård har utgitt. Altfor lang. Bare ett år etter den nesten 700-sider lange Morgenstjerne kommer en bok på nesten 800-sider. Imponerende, kan man fort tenke, men det er det overhodet ikke. For selv om Ulvene fra evighetens skog er lang, er den på ingen måte omfattende. Several decades later, in present-day Russia, he will meet her - just as a mysterious new star appears in the sky...

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new book “The Wolves of Eternity

I said nothing to Mum about what had happened. I knew what she’d think. It’d be my fault for letting him try. He nodded. I strung up another target and stood beside him as he loaded and took aim. He was really enjoying himself, a picture of concentration. The warmth of the wolf's howl can be felt against the chill of the wind. Maybe it will feel better after getting some boar meat. I stood behind the stairs and heard Hilde say I wasn't in and that she didn't know where I was. I could see Trude trudge off home through the snow.

Dovetailing between 1980s Norway and present-day Russia, THE WOLVES OF ETERNITY is an expansive book about relations—to one another, to nature, to the dead.⁠ I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it. Brandon Taylor