Hunger
Author: Knut Hamsun
A novel by the 1920 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Written after Hamsun’s return from an ill-fated tour of America, Hunger is loosely based on the author’s own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. Set in fin-de-siecle Kristiania, the novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence….Read More
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