Growth Libri GmbH Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun: A Saga of Life, Love, and Labor in Rural Norway - [DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION]

"Growth of the Soil (Norwegian: Markens Grøde) is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. "Growth of the Soil" has been lauded as one of the twentieth-century's most important and ground-breaking novels. Hamsun was a pioneer in a new more realistic style of literature and was one of the first to use a stream of consciousness writing technique. "Growth of the Soil" is the lyrical and intensely subjective story of Isak, a rural farmer, his family, and his local community members. Isak represents the agrarian and primitive lifestyle that Hamsun idealized as opposed to the increasingly urban and modernized world around him. Isak and his family resist the obligations and complexities of the regimented world of rules and machines, but are also perplexed and confused by it when they are forced to interact with its realities. ""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. "