Wayfarers (1927)
By Knut Hamsun
As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple…
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As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town in northern Norway the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins, it brings progressive alienation from the old traditions. For August, the lying charming scoundrel, it means opportunities that will threaten the stability of an as yet unspoiled community. With comic irony and haunting power Hamsun charts the slow disintegration of the old way of life in a magnificent novel that provides brilliant insights into human nature.
«A rare understanding of human nature comes through, expressed in a measured, elegiac and lyrical prose. The atmosphere is deliciously thick with sensuality and doom.» Sunday Telegraph
