Overfed with success, a writer leaves the world like a sultan putting on a hair shirt and goes into the mountains and forests of Norway to roam and think. In a remote tourist lodge and the country around it he watches the people he meets, especially a young woman whose hopes and disappointments he follows with ironic, rueful attention.
A late, melancholy novel from the Nobel-winning author of Hunger and Growth of the Soil. Download the free EPUB.