Isak, a big, silent man with a red iron beard, walks north into the empty forest of the Norwegian uplands and starts a farm with his hands. Inger, a harelipped woman, comes to join him, and over the years the clearing becomes Sellanraa, with children, livestock, neighbours, and the pressures of the town and the mining speculators.
A slow, elemental novel of work and land, named in the Nobel citation when Hamsun won in 1920. Download the free EPUB.