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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780857861795

RRP: £10.00

PAGES: 272

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 18, 2011

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Hunger

Knut Hamsun

Jo Nesbo

Paul Auster

Sverre Lyngstad

Hunger is the compelling journey into the mind of a young writer who is driven by starvation to constantly fluctuating extremes of euphoria and despair. It is a study of the psychological hinterlands – the very edges of experience – where few writers have courage to tread.

Reviews of Hunger

'Disturbing and difficult as this nightmarish novel is, it is a work of imaginative brilliance that resonates in our own day.' – Herald

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun was born in Norway in 1859. Hunger was his first novel and was published to great acclaim in 1890. He went on to write thirty novels and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, but his later work never matched the dazzling originality of his earlier novels. He died in 1953.

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