Hunger

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBO AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER 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 into chaos. 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.

About the author

Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel. He went on to write many works of fiction, including Mysteries, Pan and Victoria. He died in 1952, and since then a growing number of readers have been drawn to his work for its extraordinary qualities of insight and imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Knut Hamsun, Hamsun Knut, Sverre Lyngstad Lyngstad
• Assisted by: Paul Auster (Introduction), Auster Paul (Introduction), Jo Nesbo (Introduction), Nesbo Jo (Introduction), Paul Auster (Afterword), Auster Paul (Afterword), Knut Hamsun (Translation), Sverre Lyngstad (Translation), Sverre Lyngstad Lyngstad (Translation), Lyngstad Sverre (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2016
• EAN: 9781782117124
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-712-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Canons; The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Norwegische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Norway, Classic fiction, General & Literary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary