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2018., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Bio K67e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: My struggle Volume: 6.Summary Note: The sprawling, intimate, and spectacularly unorthodox literary autobiography that unleashed a media frenzy upon its release in Norway and became a global publishing sensation now reaches its climactic conclusion. In this poignant and characteristically substantial finale, Karl Ove, in his inimitable style, delves once again into his deepest thoughts and most revealing memories, for the first time reflecting on the impact publishing My Struggle has had on his personal life and career. His subject expands from himself to the books, ideas, and historical figures that have shaped him, culminating in an impassioned statement of his artistic purpose. The work, which has been published in more than twenty-two languages, is now available in its entirety in English.
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2021., Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Kna Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in southern Norway. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar, the journalist Jostein is out on the town, and his wife Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is. Is there a star burning itself out? Why then has no one seen it before? Or is it a brand new star? Slowly the interest in the news subsides, and life goes on, but not quite as before, for unusual phenomena begin to occur on the fringes of human existence. Over these days in August, the characters the novel follows will each understand what is happening differently, and all face new struggles in their own lives.
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2023., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: NEW Fic Kna Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The transporting, standalone continuation of the acclaimed, apocalyptically-charged novel The Morning Star--the second in a bold new series. In 1986, twenty-year-old Sivert Loyning returns from the military to his mother's home in Southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream, desperately trying to tell him something. As Sivert begins to investigate his father's life, clues point to the Soviet Union. And when he learns he has a half-sister there, the product of an affair his father had with a Russian woman, it undermines his entire notion of who he is. In present-day Russia, Alevtina, Sivert's half-sister, is traveling with her young son to the home of her stepfather, to celebrate his eightieth birthday. As a young woman, Alevtina had been willing to ask big questions about life and human consciousness, and she wasn't afraid to search for the complex and perhaps unknowable answers. But after an unsettling event in her twenties, she chose a more conventional career path. As an established evolutionary biologist approaching middle-age, she wonders why she has been so determined to keep her world within such a practical and established framework. What is she afraid of? As these two characters intersect, two very different approaches to life's great mystery emerge. And as a bright star appears in the sky, it illuminates the wonder of human existence and the mysteries that exist beyond our own worldview. Set against the political and cultural backdrop of the 1980s and present day, The Wolves of Eternity is an expansive and affecting book about inheritance and kinship, siblings and soulmates, and the temporal and eternal.
