The Wolves of Eternity
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The Wolves of Eternity
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Narrated by:
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Gilli Messer
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Natasha Soudek
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Vas Eli
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
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 AudioListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
Excellent
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highly inspired by twentieth century Russian culture.
subtle and coarse at the same time.
I think I'll get another of his books.
beautiful.
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The narrative in the voice of a young Norwegian, Syvert, which constitutes almost all of the first part of the novel, is fantastic. It builds slowly from a very simple beginning, with individual narrative strands added one at a time. I was completely gripped by it and was therefore pretty annoyed when it was suddenly interrupted (a real cliff-hanger) and the book was taken over by narrators in Russia.
The novel is eventually brought together in quite a traditional way when a much older Syvert visits Russia. But in the meantime there is quite a lot of discursive material about (mainly) death and the nature/varieties of mindedness and identity. This is basically all good stuff, which I will enjoy reading with more focus when I get the paper book. All the same, I feel a bit equivocal about its inclusion in the novel. There's nothing wrong in principle with (roughly speaking) pasting essays into a novel -- the novel form is almost infinitely capacious and I wouldn't want to say "this isn't a real novel" because of the discursive material. But a part of me would have preferred a shorter book, driven more exclusively by narrative.
When it's good it's very, very good
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Bonkers
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