The Women at the Pump - Hardcover

Hamsun, Knut

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374292809 ISBN 13: 9780374292805

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978

Synopsis

Gossip and suspicions concerning the citizens of a small Norwegian coastal town center on Oliver Andersen, his wife, and the large family they raise despite his having been flattened by a barrel of whale oil

About this title

Review:

"A rare understanding of human nature comes through, expressed in a
measured, elegiac and lyrical prose." -- 'Sunday Telegraph'

"I read these novels with the gently expanding recognition due only to the
great writers." -- Doris Lessing

"The most outstanding Norwegian writer since Ibsen." -- 'Times Literary Supplement'

"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from
Hamsun." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Hamsun is one of the great writers of this century... Hamsun's
novels have the simplicity of total self-possession." -- 'Sunday Times'

About the Author:

Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun's early works were forceful and polemic before he became more compassionate, drawing inspiration from the country people of his native Norway. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil. He has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0374292809
• ISBN 13: 9780374292805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392