By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Knut Hamsun's writing is magical, his sentences are glowing, he could write about anything and make it alive." –
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review
"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun." –
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The classic novel of humiliation, even beyond Dostoyevsky . . . Lyngstad's translation restores to the English-speaking reader one of the cold summits in modern prose literature." –
George Steiner