From family secrets to the mysteries of the universe, Karl Ove Knausgård returns with a vast and daring novel whose meticulous realism ends up leading to the vertigo of the supernatural, and whose stories woven by a surprising chance point ominously, insinuatingly, to a hidden meaning that eludes us. 1986: Syvert returns from military service. One day his dead father appears to him in a dream, awakening a curiosity that will intensify some letters that point to the USSR. Many years later, Alevtina goes to the birthday of her stepfather, who ....