The Wolves of Eternity

By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator),

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Book description

The future is no more, and eternity has begun.

It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Loyning 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,…

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1 author picked The Wolves of Eternity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the middle volume of the Morning Star trilogy. The characters pick up on some of those in volume 1, and then recur in volume 3. Each book is a world in itself, but cumulatively they became addictive for me. In ten years I will reread them hoping that I have forgotten many of the subtle nuggets of detail and enjoying them all again.

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