The Wolves of Eternity

An NPR Best Book of the Year

“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.” —The Washington Post

“The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the religious, the world as cosmic accident versus embodiment of some radiant intention. Is this world shot through with meaning or not? Has there ever been a better time to ask?” —The New York Times Book Review

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of what we can understand about life itself.

In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway.… Keep Reading