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Hunger

By Paul Auster, Knut Hamsun, Robert W. Bly (Translator)

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the oContinue

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.

A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity, Hunger mirrors the dire straits of Hamsun's own life when he brought this, his then incomplete first novel, to a publisher in 1888.

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  • Hunger

    Light on plot, heavy on inner turmoil, the book, which made Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s name, is a modernist tour de force. Here we have the daily struggles of a writer as he weaves his way, starving and world-weary, through the streets of Chris ... (read full critics)

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