Synopsis
From the author of The Ice Palace and The Birds
Sixteen-year-old Sissel and her young brother Olaf have been left minding their parents' farm for the night. When a strange family descends on them, lost, in a broken-down car, the children have to cope alone. By the end of this spring night there will have been a birth and a death in the house, and adolescence will have vanished forever.
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"Vesaas conjures brilliantly from the somber north."
About the Author
TARJEI VESAAS was born in 1897 in the remote rural Telemark district of Norway, where he spent most of his life. Throughout his life he published several novels, volumes of poetry and a book of short stories which was awarded an international prize at Venice in 1952. He was awarded several other prizes and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in 1964, 1968 and again in 1969. He died in 1970, his reputation as the leading Nordic writer firmly established.
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Spring Night
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Spring Night - UNESCO Translation Series of Representative Works
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Peter Owen Limited, London, 1972
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British Commonwealth Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in removable protective clear sleeve. 167pp. Patterned endpapers. Library copy, ink stamp to title page and rear pastedown. (28/2). Seller Inventory # ABE-1547288199725