Growth of the Soil (Translated by Sverre Lyngstad 2007)

✍ Scribed by Knut Hamsun

• Book ID: 111610528
• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
• Year: 1917
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Edition: Penguin Classics (2007)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781440619601

✦ Synopsis

Genre: Literature

ebook, 344 pages

Paperback, 352 pages

Published: 1917

Edition: Penguin Classics (2007)

Original Title: Markens Grøde originally published in Norway in 1917.

Translated from the Norwegian by: Sverre Lyngstad (2007)

Introduction by: Brad Leithauser (2007)

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.

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