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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature“Knut Hamsun’s writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive.” —
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review
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Growth of the Soil was a worldwide sensation . . . and almost from the day of publication there were rumors that Hamsun would win the Nobel Prize. . . . Singer admitted to being ‘hypnotized’ by him; Hesse called him his favorite writer; Hemingway recommended his novels to Scott Fitzgerald; Gide compared him to Dostoyevsky, but believed Hamsun was ‘perhaps even more subtle.’ The list of those who loved his sly, anarchic voice is long.” —
The New Yorker “Growth of the Soil impresses me as among the very greatest novels I have ever read. It is wholly beautiful; it is saturated with wisdom and humor and tenderness.” —
H. G. Wells “The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.” —
Isaac Bashevis Singer
