Peer Holm grows up a poor, fatherless boy in a fishing settlement on a storm-beaten northern fjord, hungry for more than the life of the grey fisher huts. Ambition carries him through engineering school and out into the wide world to build great works abroad, then brings him to a reckoning with success, loss and the deeper hunger that no achievement fills.
The novel that made Bojer famous far beyond Norway, a searching modern parable for readers of Hamsun and Ibsen. Download the free EPUB.