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Growth of the Soil

by Knut Hamsun

★4.2/5
EssaysFictionHistorical Fiction
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Growth of the Soil is Knut Hamsun's version of the Book of Genesis. It is the story of an ogre-like man, Isak, who steps out of an unknown past and into the Sami wilderness of Northern Norway in the 1860s in search of land. Far away from civilization, Isak and his disfigured wife, Inger, carve out their own agrarian kingdom amidst the passions and drama of human existence.

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