Product Description

As the modern industrialised world begins to encroach on a small, isolated coastal town of northern Norway, the effect is devastating. For young Edevart, uprooted from his simple origins, it brings progressive alienation from the old traditions; for August, the lying, charming scoundrel, it means opportunities that will threaten the stability of an as yet unspoiled community. With comic irony and a haunting power, Hamsun charts the slow disintegrated of the old way in a magnificent novel that provides brilliant insights into human nature; the visiting skipper who is lured to his death by Ane Marie because, hurtfully, he did not make advances to her; the old watch seller who is as ready to cheat himself as he is to swindle others; the poignant, painful love affair between Edevart and the barefoot Lovise Magrete. Written seven years after Hamsun received the Nobel Prize for Literature, "Wayfarers" is a masterpiece by one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223442 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-27
• Original language: Norwegian
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Sunday Times
Hamsun's novels have the simplicity of total self-possession, of the clearest possible understanding of the human world.

Sunday Telegraph
A rare understanding of human nature comes through, expressed in a measured, elegiac and lyrical prose.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from
Hamsun."

Customer Reviews

hamsun and the summer of 2001
I found this book randomly in a pension shelf in Olympos, in June 2001. I went to a hammock to read a bit and I read the whole book until the evening. It was more than 40 degrees and the sea was 100 meters away but i didn't want to go. The other day I read 'Under the Autumn Stars', again by Hamsun. I also read that one in a single day. That summer I read all of Hamsun's books. After reading him on the hammock I realized lots of new things about myself, others, and the world. It moved me a step forward and made me more thoughtful and pure. The book talks simply about norwegian people, their lives and their inner worlds. However that simplicity changes you permanently.