The Wolves of Eternity - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Karl Ove Knausgaard Klappentext "In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert L²yning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother Joar on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations. In present-day Russia, Alevtina Kotov, a biologist working at Moscow University, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather to celebrate his eightieth birthday. ... Her stepfather, a musician, raised her as his own daughter, and she was never interested in learning about her biological father. When she finally starts looking into him, she learns that he died many years ago and left two sons, Joar and Syvert"-- Leseprobe HELGE I've just been listening to the Status Quo album Rockin' All Over the World . I'm still shaking. I played it non-stop when it first came out. That was in 1977, and I was eleven years old. I hadn't listened to it since. Not until now, when, sitting bored in the office, I began wandering along some pathways back into the past, a band that reminded me of another band, and then another, on the screen in front of me. The cover alone sent a tingle down my spine. The image of the world, shining in the darkest firmament, the band name in electric lettering and the album title underneath in computer script - wow! But it didn't really knock me out until I pressed play and started listening. I remembered all the songs, it was as if the melodies and riffs hidden in my subconscious came welling up to reconnect with their origins, their parents, those old Status Quo songs to which they belonged. But it wasn't only that. With them came shoals of memories, a teeming swathe of tastes, smells, visions, occurrences, moods, atmospheres, whatever. My emotions couldn't handle so much information all at once, the only thing I could do was sit there trembling for three-quarters of an hour as the album played. I had it on cassette - no one I knew owned a record player back then, apart from my sister, who only ever listened to classical and jazz anyway - and I played it all the time on the black cassette player I'd got for Christmas the year before. It ran on batteries and I used to take it outside with me nearly everywhere I went. Invariably, I sang along too. How brilliant to hear the album again now! Status Quo, Slade, Mud, Gary Glitter, they were the bands we listened to. Those a bit older than us added in Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Queen and Rainbow. Then everything upended, at least it did for me, and all of a sudden it was Sham 69, the Clash, the Police, the Specials, nothing else would do. But they're bands I've kept listening to, on and off. That's never been the case with Status Quo. That's why it hit me the way it did, like an explosion. And it's why suddenly I cried when I heard the chorus of the title song. 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. That I existed. And that I was there. In my room, for example. Yes, the smell of the electric heater. The music on the cassette player. Not too loud, because Dad was home, but loud enough for the feelings to pervade me. The snow outside. The smell of it when it was wet, as much rain as snow. An ai laik it ai laik it ai laik ai laik it ai la la la la laik it la la la laik it. Hilde, opening the door. 'There's a girl hanging around outside. Do you know her?' I stepped over to the living-room...

Product details

• Authors: Martin Aitken, Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2023
• EAN: 9780593490839
• ISBN: 978-0-593-49083-9
• No. of pages: 800
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 243 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature