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Rising star: The Wolves of Eternity, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, reviewed

The second volume of Knausgaard’s trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body

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  • The Wolves of Eternity

    Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken

    Harvill Secker, pp. 800, £25

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