Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Brand new edition of Knut Hamsun's most famous work, with an introduction by Paul Auster

Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day* * Herald * *
An excellent new translation . . . this Hunger deserves to be the standard English version. Canongate did well to secure it. * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Hunger is the crux of Hamsun's claims to mastery. This is the classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoevsky. * * Observer * *
Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most important novels of the modern age. At last it has found a translator capable of doing justice to its immense power and complexity: Lyngstad's deserves to become the standard English version. -- Duncan McClean

Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel and was published to great acclaim in 1890. He went on to write thirty novels and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, but his later work never matched the dazzling originality of his earlier novels. He died in 1953.

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ISBN 13	9781841958194
ISBN 10	1841958190
Title	Hunger
Author	Knut Hamsun
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2006-08-31
Number of pages	272
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