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he epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the first new English translation in more than ninety years When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond betwee...Vis mer