Growth of the Soil - Paperback

by Knut Hamsun (Author)

The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity. The author looks upon his characters with a great, all-tolerant sympathy, aloof yet kindly, as a god. A more objective work of fiction would be hard to find. Hamsun won the Noble Prize in 1920 for this book.