Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun

⏱ 8 minRealist classic

A strong, silent man walks into the northern wilderness, finds a patch of ground, and with endless patient labour makes a farm, a family, and a whole settlement out of the waste, through the great cycle of seasons and the unsettling coming of the modern world. Hamsun's Nobel-crowned epic of the land.

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