The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel\'s original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece.
In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country,.
Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience.
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel\'s original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece
