Growth of the Soil Paperback - 2007
by Knut Hamsun; Sverre Lyngstad (Translator); Introduction by Brad Leithauser
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago
When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel 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.
Summary
When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel 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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- Title Growth of the Soil
- Author Knut Hamsun; Sverre Lyngstad (Translator); Introduction by Brad Leithauser
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York
- Date 2007-10-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143105107 / 0143105108
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Scandinavian
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Norway
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007060055
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
-H. G. Wells
"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Citations
- Library Journal, 11/15/2007, Page 92
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