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Hunger by Knut Hamsun


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Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway’s capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer’s behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals…

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Hunger was Knut Hamsun’s first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

Additional information

Weight0.10025 kg
Title

Hunger

Publisher

Canons

Author

Knut Hamsun

Book binding

paperback

Release date

7 Jan 2016

Pages

272

Condition

New

ISBN/EAN        9781782117124
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