 and supernatural strangeness, as if My Struggle had been rewritten by Stephen King: an extraordinary heatwave gripped Norway, a new planet appeared in the sky, and the dead started returning to life. The Morning Star left its nine main characters in various forms of cliffhanging situations, so it's reasonable to think The Wolves of Eternity might pick up where things left off. Instead it takes us back to 1986 and a new){kind=link}
Two years after The Morning Star, in which Karl Ove Knausgaard left behind the highly autobiographical style of his My Struggle sequence for something more obviously fictional, its sequel arrives. The Morning Star blended Knausgaard’s trademark attendance to the fine grain of daily life (marital squabbles, sorting the recycling, high school parties) and supernatural strangeness, as if My Struggle had been rewritten by Stephen King: an extraordinary heatwave gripped Norway, a new planet appeared in the sky, and the dead started returning to life.
The Morning Star left its nine main characters in various forms of cliffhanging situations, so it’s reasonable to think The Wolves of Eternity might pick up where things left off. Instead it takes us back to 1986 and a new
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