Tarjei Vessas Book order

Tarjei Vesaas, a Norwegian poet and novelist, wrote in the Nynorsk language. His prose is characterized by its simplicity, terseness, and symbolic depth. Vesaas frequently explores rural characters experiencing profound psychological dramas, rendering them with immense insight according to critics. His works often grapple with themes of death, guilt, and angst, with the Norwegian natural landscape serving as a prominent backdrop. His command of Nynorsk helped establish it as a vehicle for world-class literature.

2015
The Seed
224 pages
8 hours of reading
3.7(49)Add rating
From the author of The Ice Palace, winner of Bookslut's Daphne Award for fiction, comes a new addition to the Peter Owen Modern Classics series The themes of 1940's The Seed are violence and guilt. A maniac visiting an island murders a girl. He is pursued by the islanders and killed by the victim's brother. Too late, the avengers become aware of their own guilt, with its attendant mutual mistrust, and they attempt to expiate their crime. Vesaas's graphic evocation of nature and his parallel between the violence of savage animals and humanity make this a book of unusual literary distinction.
2014
The Bridges
200 pages
7 hours of reading
4.0(25)Add rating
Tarjei Vessas's The Bridges describes the changing relationships between three adolescents - an unmarried mother who has drowned her newborn child and the girl and boy who befriend her. Their individual reactions to the tragedy and their efforts to communicate with each other form the central theme of the narrative. As strange, unsettling - and memorable - as The Ice Palace, this remarkable novel carries with all the compassion, human insight and lyrical power of a great Vessas novel.

The Seed

The Bridges