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The Birds

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241384885
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Birds written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best Norwegian novel ever' Karl Ove Knausgaard Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since they were young, gets so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock which starts to fly over their house every day is a sign something is about to change. And when Hege falls in love, disrupting their familiar existence and unbalancing his thoughts, he decides he must face his fate. Translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes 'A masterpiece' Literary Review 'Mattis, absurd and boastful, but also sweet, pathetic and even funny, is shown with great insight' Sunday Times

The Ice Palace

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720613760
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Ice Palace written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other's company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss's world is shattered. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn's fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature.

The Boat in the Evening

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Modern Classic
ISBN 13 : 9780720611984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Boat in the Evening written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Modern Classic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life--of landscape and people.

Spring Night

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spring Night written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Norway in 1954, this lyrical novel is about an abrupt change from childish dreams and safety to grown-up responsibilities and happiness. On the surface it deals with what happens to two youngsters left for a night alone on their parents' farm, but like "The Ice Palace" and other great novels by Vesaas, the themes are far deeper: How difficult the road is from "I" to "you" or "we," even when love is involved.

The Great Cycle

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Great Cycle written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply and beautifully written, this universal tale of a boy growing into manhood is told by an author who was also the firstborn and faced with the pressures of inheriting and expectations of working the family farm. Vesaas, however, takes this simple tale into new emotional and linguistic territory, as he poetically presents the experiences of Norwegian peasant life.

Through Naked Branches

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691008974
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Through Naked Branches written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarjei Vesaas, one of Scandinavia's greatest fiction writers, has been less well known as a poet. Now Roger Greenwald, an award-winning translator of Scandinavian poetry, presents forty-six poems drawn from Vesaas's six volumes of poetry. This selection is intended to reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts appear facing the English versions, which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize. The translator's groundbreaking introduction explores why Vesaas's poetry has often resisted critical analysis and how it challenges received notions of modernism. Excerpts from Vesaas's writings about himself and his work supply helpful background and give some sense of the man behind the work. Vesaas emerges as a lyric and meditative poet of uncommon depth, who renders states of being beyond the reach not only of discourse, but of most poetry as well. From "The Boat on Land": Your still boat hasn't got a name. Your still boat hasn't got a port. Your secret boat on land. From "Shadows on the Point" We stand here in your deep night, Night, and wait for something new from beyond the point. The current runs black and silent. And what we feel through it we don't tell each other.

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490680
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe written by Ann Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

The Seed

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720616385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Seed written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Ice Palace, winner of Bookslut's Daphne Award for fiction, comes a new addition to the Peter Owen Modern Classics series The themes of 1940's The Seed are violence and guilt. A maniac visiting an island murders a girl. He is pursued by the islanders and killed by the victim's brother. Too late, the avengers become aware of their own guilt, with its attendant mutual mistrust, and they attempt to expiate their crime. Vesaas's graphic evocation of nature and his parallel between the violence of savage animals and humanity make this a book of unusual literary distinction.

The House in the Dark

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720618266
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The House in the Dark written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part allegory, part fable, The House In The Dark was written in secret during the German occupation of Norway, and gives a stirring picture of how a society struggled to stay united under the strain of being watched by their invaders.

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

Author : Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564787036
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am written by Kjersti A. Skomsvold and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world—to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won't notice her passing? The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am is a macabre twist on the notion that life "must be lived to the fullest."

The Bleaching Yard

Author : Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Bleaching Yard written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zero

Author : Gine Cornelia Pedersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995485235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Zero written by Gine Cornelia Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gina Cornelia Pedersen debuted with this explosive novel, which won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award. Compared, in its home country of Norway, with a 'punk rock single', the unique lyrical style and frank description of life with mental health problems have come together to create on of the most exciting works of fiction from Scandinavia in recent years."--Cover

The Obscene Madame D

Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Steerforth Press
ISBN 13 : 1805331361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Obscene Madame D written by Hilda Hilst and published by Steerforth Press. This book was released on 2025-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits. Every month I ingested the body of God, not in the way one swallows green peas or agrostis, or swallows swords, I ingested the body of God the way people do when they know they are swallowing the More, the All, the Incommensurable, for not believing in finitude I would lose myself in absolute infinity… The Obscene Madame D tells the story of Hillé, a sixty-year-old woman who has decided to abandon conventional life and spend the rest of her days in contemplation in a recess under the stairs. There, she is haunted by the perplexity of her recently deceased lover, Ehud, who cannot understand her rejection of common sense, sex and a simple life in favour of metaphysical speculations that he considers delusional and vain. In a stream-of-consciousness monologue that’s part James Joyce, part Clarice Lispector, and part de Sade, Hillé speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction, as she searches for answers to great questions of life, death and the relationship between body and soul.

Beside Myself

Author : Ann Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408870320
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Beside Myself written by Ann Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As gripping as Room, as powerful as Elizabeth is Missing, Beside Myself is the story of twin sisters, a childhood game with devastating consequences and the slippery nature of identity Helen and Ellie are identical twins – like two peas in a pod, everyone says. The girls know this isn't true, though: Helen is the leader and Ellie the follower. Until they decide to swap places: just for fun, and just for one day. But Ellie refuses to swap back... And so begins a nightmare from which Helen cannot wake up. Her toys, her clothes, her friends, her glowing record at school, the favour of her mother and the future she had dreamed of are all gone to a sister who blossoms in the approval that used to belong to Helen. And as the years pass, she loses not only her memory of that day but also herself – until eventually only 'Smudge' is left. Twenty-five years later, Smudge receives a call from out of the blue. It threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit, but if this is her only chance to face the past, how can she resist? Beside Myself is a compulsive and darkly brilliant psychological drama about family and identity – what makes us who we are and how very fragile it can be.

The Whisperer

Author : Karin Fossum
Publisher : HarperVia
ISBN 13 : 1328614190
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book The Whisperer written by Karin Fossum and published by HarperVia. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragna Riegel likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she receives a letter with a threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. Facing an unknown enemy, she must use all her means to defend herself. When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer thinks it is an open-and-shut case. But Ragna may be hiding a dark secret.... -- adapted from jacket

Le Grand Meaulnes

Author : Alain-Fournier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140182828
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Le Grand Meaulnes written by Alain-Fournier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic French novel written by a soldier, who would later die during World War I, tells the story of Auguste Meaulnes and the "domain mysterieux."

Beatrice And Virgil [may-10]

Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670084514
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beatrice And Virgil [may-10] written by Yann Martel and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.