The great trading house of Garman and Worse dominates a small town on the Norwegian coast, with its shipping, its countinghouse and its old patriarch. Kielland follows the family’s sons and daughters, the town’s pastors and officials, and the tensions between tradition and new ideas, against the backdrop of the restless sea.
The debut novel of one of the four great Norwegian writers of the 1880s, ironic and finely drawn. Download the free EPUB.