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The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian backcountry, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the distinguished Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Growth of the Soil is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power - and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Growth of the Soil
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Knut Hamsun
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0143105108
- ISBN13
- 9780143105107
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Mystery & Thriller, Biographies, Philosophical Topics, Thriller, Classics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, 20th century, Gifts for grandpa, Gifts for women, 19th century, Psychological Thrillers, Social Critique, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Women's Biographies, Nobel prize, Norway, Countryside, Scandinavia, Norwegian literature, Self-Sufficiency
- Original title
- Markens grøde
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature. When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian backcountry, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the distinguished Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Growth of the Soil is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power - and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.