The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize inLiteraturethe first new English translation since the novels originalpublication ninety y... » 

The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize inLiteraturethe first new English translation since the novels originalpublication ninety years agoWhen it was first published in 1917 Growth of the Soil was immediatelyrecognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transportingliterary experience. In the story of Isak who leaves his village to clear ahomestead 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 acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad Hamsunsnovel is a work of preternatural calm stern beauty and biblical powerand thecrowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. «